Discuss about “If the Impressionists had been dentists (A Fantasy exploring the transposition of temperament)”, an essay from “Without Feathers”, a book written by Woody Allen.

This essay from Woody Allen answers the following question: what if impressionists were not artists? It seems Mr. Allen found an appropriate answer: they would be… dentists! He wrote this piece that puts oral surgery in a whole new light, in Allen's distinctive style. The whole play deals with a parody on the life of Vincent Van Gogh, become a dentist and writing to his friend Theo to talk about his new life, much more exciting than a normal dentist and than an usual impressionist painter. Humour consists in keeping the impressionists’ temperament as Woody Allen feels it and to apply it into a job where it provokes disasters. Indeed, this transposition of temperament makes impressionists very bad dentists, as we will discover it.
First, why being respectful of patients? Impressionists never thought about customers when they were painting an old master. They would paint it the way they liked it. So let’s keep the same state of mind when making a bridge for Mrs. Sol Schwimmer: “...