Jamaica Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time"

Of the four pieces we read in Writing and Place I thought that Jamaica Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" used thick description most effectively. Kincaid used thick description so well that after I finished reading her story I felt that there would be no need for me to take an English history class! The way she described England was so detailed and very patriotic, that it gave me the goosebumps after only reading the first paragraph. "This is England"-and she said it with authority, seriousness, and adoration, and we all sat up". She is telling us how great the old England was and how much everyone adored the country. She tells us how much history and tradition the country had, that it made me wish that i was apart of something so great.
Unfortunately, the thick description turns south after she visits for the second time. Now, all grown up she takes a good look at the "real" England and realizes that it's not at all what it use to be. Everything has changed for the worse and the way she desbribes England now makes you never want to go there. The people, the food, the culture, everything is groteske to her now."I said, my husband and I hate princes, my husband would never wear anything that had a prince's anything on it." He hatred towards England is so bad that she is very rude to everyone. The prince is a very well-respected man in England and her saying that she hates him is the icing on the cake telling the audience how badly she dislikes the country. Kincaid really took me for a loop while reading this story because at first she speaks so highly of England and by the end of it she is saying things like," It was not at that moment that I wished every sentence, everything I knew, that began with England would end with " and then it all died."