One place that Kincaid contrasts what a touist sees and what a local sees is in the hotels. Kincaid describes how the tourist rushes to the hotel to take bath and bruth thier teeth and use the restoom. What the tourist is unaware of is where the water goes after they flush. He talks about the sewage problem that the island has. This problem is masked by the islands beauty and the tourist preoccupation with their own relaxation while the are vacationing.
Kincaid goes on to say that it is a lack of appreciation for the beauty that they see around them. Kincaid thinks that the tourist are ignorant to the day to day lives of the inhabitants of the island simple because they do not live there and will only be visiting for a short while. She accuses them of being bad people because the go to other countries to seek happiness off of their misfortune.
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