 While telling of the times that his brother, Raymond, got Jamaica's attention, the narrator becomes quite jealous because he always paid attention to her but she preferred that Raymond did not look at her even.Following another flashback to a time where Jamaica told him about how she had wanted to cut her hair and be the boy of the family, the narrator resumes his thought in present-day and how he will be soon headed to a larger jail.He then recalls the last day that he saw Jamaica, when he woke up and her hair was all cut off.