Lucy
What metaphors are used in Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid?
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Daffodils are the flowers Lucy learned about in school but had never seen. In some ways, daffodils were a metaphor of the emotional life that Lucy could never have and the opportunities she would miss due to her ethnicity and sex.