summary of 'ONE OF THESE DAYS'

'One of these Days' is a short story written by the famous Colombian writer GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ. It tells the story of a famous dentist who was so much devoted to his work to the extent he wakes up early at 6 every morning to go to his dental clinic at to start his work. On one of these days while he was working in his clinic the Mayor of his county arrived early in the morning as he was suffering from so much pain in his lower wisdom tooth.

He asked to see the dentist but the dentist at first refused to meet him as he was busy working with some false teeth for one of his patients. The Mayor was so much in pain that he asked again to see the dentist, the dentist finally agreed to see him. The Mayor looked terrible; one side of his face was swollen and in pain and the other side looked natural. He managed to shave on side of his face, but the other side remained unshaven.

The man was suffering from a dreadful pain; he wanted very much to be relieved from his pain. The dentist inspected his tooth and he discovered that there was an abscess in his tooth which was the cause of all this pain. He told the Mayor that he would pull out his tooth but without anesthesia, the Mayor agreed because he wanted to get rid of the tooth that was causing him so much pain and making him look terrible.

During the surgical dental operation, the Mayor underwent so much torture and physical pain but he showed much courage and psychological power in enduring this operation. The dentist finally removed his lower wisdom tooth with success. He asked the dentist to send him later the bill; the dentist asked him if he would send it to his home or to the town, the Mayor replied that they are both the same thing.

The writer was more or less making fun of the social conditions of his society at that time. He wanted to show the reader that the money owned by his town coming from taxes or the income of the county's economies are in the pockets of the MAYOR.