One of These Days

Revenge causes one to act blindly through anger rather than through reason. It is part of human nature to seek revenge against another human being. People easily succumb to revenge especially if they were in any way wronged or victimized by another person. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One of These Days”, the theme of revenge is presented throughout the story. The dentist, Aurelio Escovar, clearly has a history with the Mayor making the dentist want to seek revenge. The dentist gets revenge by using improper sterilization, prolonging the suffering, and intensifying the pain.
First of all, the dentist used improper sterilization. The instruments used by dentists should be properly sterilized before and after every use. However, this is not the case with the instruments used by the dentist in “One of These Days”. For example, boiling water is used to sterilize the instruments, “He brought the basin of sterilized instruments to the worktable and took them out of t...