The mayor is on the greater side, while the dentist is not. The short story “One of These Days” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, takes place in the Civil war and this poor dentist named Aurelio Escovar ,without a degree. The Mayor he comes and asked if he can take out his lower wisdom tooth, and the Mayor is like on the winning side of the Civil war and Aurelio is on the losing side. The Point of view is narrator because the story is like he said..., mayor said... things like that.
Aurelio tries to tell his son to tell the mayor that he’s not in today, but the mayor over hears him. “Papa. What?. The Mayor wants to know if you’ll pull his tooth. Tell him I’m not here. He says you are, too, because he can hear to.” This shows that Aurelio doesn’t want to pull the Mayor’s tooth, but the mayor over hears him and after that he has no choice but to assist the Mayor and pull his tooth.
When the dentist was pulling out the mayor’s wisdom tooth it really hurt because he didn’t put anesthesia. “ It has to be without anesthesia. why?. because you have an abscess. The Mayor felt the crunch of bones in his Jaw, and his eyes filled with tears. But he didn’t breathe until he felt the tooth come out. Then he saw it through his tears.” This shows that, the tooth really hurt when the dentist pulled it out without anesthesia.
My opinion about the short story is that it is a good story, but at the same time I didn’t understand it because it starts with a dentist pulling out a tooth for the Mayor. But then I understand it’s about different sides in power, there’s the winning side and the losing side. The Mayor is on the winning side and the dentist is on the losing side.
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