This story starts differently then other ones. I liked this one even though it was confusing at first.

I think maybe it's her mother who is talking to her of being the perfect woman like Nikita said.

I read part of a biography of Jamaica Kincaid. She's from Antigua and she left and moved to New York when the English were colonizing. Apparently one of her themes in her writing is the struggle against colonial orders which intrude on natives' lives, and I though "Girl" portrayed that perfectly. I think her mother represents the rules and regulations imposed on the natives' and how they are all forced to be something they are not.