In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, how does she use syntax to create an effect?

The
syntactical structure of the short story "" is one of its most striking features. It's
a challenging story to read because it is one large paragraph. Typically, we would discourage
writing such as this, because its density can make it difficult to tease out the content;
however, Kincaid is aware of this and does so purposely.

The effect is that
the reader feels as overwhelmed as the girl being spoken to her by her mother. The girl is given
a literal laundry list (the first set of directives is about how to wash the clothes), and
hidden among the mundane tasks is a tone of genuine concern and love for the girl. The
densemakes it evident that the girl's mother wants to impart as much knowledge to her daughter
as possible, because she recognizes her time to make an influence on her is short. We can also
assume the mother has her own laundry list of tasks to accomplish and so doesn't have the time
to have a true heart-to-heart with her daughter.

The stylistic choice to
have the...