The correct answer to this open question is the following.
You did not include any reference for this question: text, context, excerpt, name of the story, or the name of the author.
However, doing some deep research, we can comment on the following.
First, you are referring to the story of Jamaica Kincaid, the name Antiguan author Elaine Porter Richardson used to write her story.
The name of the story is "Island Morning."
Kincaid's childhood experiences in Antigua have influenced her perspective on living in a big city in that she had a different perspective of how life was in the beautiful and quiet of Antigua, compared with the agitated and crowded life in New York City.
One example taken directly from the "Island Morning" text is: <em>"Every morning—workday, Saturday, or Sunday—the whole island was alive by six o’clock. People got up early on weekdays to go to work or to school; they got up early on Saturday to go to market; and they got up early on Sunday to go to church."</em>
That scenario was an agitated day on the island. So when she arrived in New York, she could understand the big differences or the two distinct places.
