, ‘The Use of Force’ by William Carlos Williams and ‘One of These Days’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

Having power can be very overwhelming, which bring us to use it the right or the wrong way. These two short story, ‘The Use of Force’ by William Carlos Williams and ‘One of These Days’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, demonstrate how these two doctors need to force their power on their patient for them to cooperate. Both explore the struggle of being someone important to the society and having more authority than the people of their village. In ‘The Use of Force’ by William Carlos Williams, The doctor visit a sick girl named Mathilda. He decides to check her throat. However, she refuses to open her mouth and the doctor has no other choice then to uses force to restrain her and examine her throat with a spoon, which makes the girl very mad. In ‘One of These Days’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, on the other hand, Aurelio Escovar is a poor dentist without a degree. The mayor, who has been suffering severe toothache for five days and is desperate, goes to see him. The dentist lets him in, examines him, and then removes the infected wisdom tooth, without anesthesia. The dentist on purpose made the mayor suffer all this time, and he gives the reason as he pulls out the tooth, saying "Now you’ll pay for our twenty dead men." In other words, the doctor use his power to control the little girl and the dentist use his power to take revenge.
In ‘The Use of Force’ by William Carlos Williams, the doctor, having more power than the little girl, mathilda, needs to use force on her to be able to check her throat to see if has diphtheria, being stubborn mathilda try to defeat the doctor by screaming and making a scene. Being the one in charge, the doctor use his power and force open the mouth of his patient ‘then I grasped the child’s head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her’(6). Having power you are up ahead of other people. In ‘The Use of Force’, the doctor needed to use force on the little girl because she wasn’t copping and she would have