"What I Have Been Doing Lately" is the wandering journey of a mysterious narrator. The story begins with her lying in bed when the doorbell rings. Her state of (un)consciousness is not revealed. (Does she wake up?) The settings of the story shift within an undefined and vague time and space. A story of coming and going, return and departure, the narrator walks and walks, leaving familiar landscapes to enter unfamiliar ones to return to the familiar again. The sections of the story merge eventually into a circular narrative, a doorbell ringing in the parting and in the closing lines. With an additional word, a twist of sentence structure, Kincaid differentiates the first section from the second and transforms the agency of the subject. She heeds the call of the doorbell in the first section by running downstairs. Quick. In the second part the action is ....

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