One Of These Days Essay

How can a person tell if someone as big as a mayor is corrupt in his own laws and way of life? How can a man who has lived his life in the wrong be able to judge a political figure? In the story “One of
These Days” it focuses on a dentist who experiences the corruption of a role model and a leader in his city. Written by the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the story shows the power that a political figure has, in his city, over those who have little to no power in anything except their own day to day life.
In the beginning of the story, it focuses on an unlicensed dentist opening his store. In the story he opens his office at six in the morning and begins to arrange the false teeth and tools within his office in order of size on his …show more content…
Because of this, we begin to question the right that the mayor has to do this. As a result, we begin to feel that he may be corrupt. The dentist finally gets done and gets ready to pull the mayor’s tooth.
At the end of the story, the dentist pulls the mayor’s tooth. As he begins to do this before he pulls it, he says “Now you’ll pay for our twenty dead men,” by showing this the character is saying that it will hurt a lot and he will be able to feel the pain that the others were suffering. After he pulled the tooth, the mayor sits in the chair with tears in his eyes so the dentist hands him a handkerchief to dry his tears.
Within the story, the main character sees the mayor’s true nature when he asks him about the bill. In this statement, the mayor says “send the bill,” so the dentist replies “ to you or the town?” and to this statement the mayor responds “ it’s the same damn thing.” To readers, this shows that the mayor is a corrupt political figure by saying that he and the town are the same thing.W within this story the writer leaves the audience with one question, are we allowed to judge those that are above all in our political