Postcolonial Reading of “Summer Lightning” Olive Senior is a Caribbean writer who was born in rural Jamaica. In the short story, the author metaphorically expresses her thoughts about the loss of pride in Caribbean culture by the people of Caribbean Island and the hegemonic magnetism towards western culture, which he thinks “Sodomy”. The story, in surface level, presents a narration about boy who lives with her guardians and his experience with a new comer to the house, an old man. A Postcolonial analysis would bring out the intention of the author and provide a different coloring to the story. The Old man represents the colonizers who “had been coming for Years”. The House/ Garden Room represent the “Caribbean Island” and the old man can be analogized with the colonizers of Caribbean Island. The secret room functions as a "Third Space" where the two cultures mingle. The Boy's race is not mentioned in the story, yet he may be assumed as being an african.Afro-