An evolving relationship in The Circling Hand An evolving mother-daughter relationship is at the heart of Jamaica Kincaid's autobiographical The Circling Hand. Like the narrator, Kincaid grew up in Antigua as an only child, her mother and her father a carpenter. Also, like the narrator, Kincaid admits that her mother kept everything she wore. This narrative is a coming-of-age story, in which this dynamic and unusual mother-daughter relationship plays an important role. From the beginning of childhood happiness to the frustrating stage of adolescence, this unique relationship, in which the daughter is infatuated with her mother, seems to control the narrator's development as a free-thinking person. extremely beautiful. He sits and thinks about it in class too. He describes his mother's head as if it should be on a sixpence piece (Kincaid 807). He stares at his mother's long neck and hair and enhances virtually every feature. The narrator even refers to the fact that many women had loved his father, but he chose the royal mother. This increases his mother's stature in the narrator's eyes. Through the in-depth description of her mother's beauty, the narrator conveys her obsession with every detail of her mother. Although the narrator's adoration for his mother's physical appearance is vast, his desire to be like her and be with her is even greater. The narrator spends his early childhood drunk on love for his mother. He happily sleeps late during the school holidays, follows his mother… halfway through the paper… the relationship has fully evolved and the narrator somehow enters into its natural and inevitable process. the newly severed apron strings, while at her new school, the narrator begins to love a new friend named Gwen. When he shares the day with his mother and doesn't mention his new love, this is his young mind's way of saying You have your life and I have mine and I don't have to tell you. While the mother-daughter relationship still exists, the narrator forms another relationship, making it less dependent on the first. The evolution of adolescence is the theme of the story, but the transformation of the mother-daughter relationship proves to be the most drastic change that the narrator goes through in an age focused on change..