Sunday Cricket

     This short story focuses on the British game of cricket. It is a display of post-colonialism at its finest and the plot shows the deep divide that European nations had with the nations that they have colonized. The story centers around a game of cricket between the West Indies and England. The tone of the story is very competitive. The narrator says, "'That was a wonderful shot,' Charles tell Algernon grudgingly. Charles still had a feeling that the boys was only talkers, but so much controversy raging that he don’t know what to say." The grudges are driven by their differences culturally, and the sense of superiority by the white male has a stark presence in this short story, much like many stories we have read that have dealt with the relationships between colonizer and native.

    In addition, the story is told from the view of a narrator who is presumably also from the West Indies. His diction is very informal, and his language is not sharp and proper. This helps tell the story from the point of view of the oppressed or underdog in this situation. The very proper quotes from the Englishman and then the very cultural improper language from the narrator and other West Indies characters, shows the stratification and difference between the characters. The characters tones showed how the English and West Indies teams were not keen to play at first, but the pride of each side drove them to ultimately compete. So much is said that goes beyond the game of cricket, and it is merely a symbol for the interactions and relationships between two different cultures.