One of These Days Questions and Answers
One of These Days
In “One of These Days,” why does the mayor tell Aurelio that “it’s the same damn thing”?
The last line of the short story "One of These Days" reads: "It's the same damn thing." The mayor of the town says this in answer to a question that the dentist who has just pulled his tooth asks...
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What is implied by the line “Now you will pay for our twenty dead men” in “One of These Days”?
In “One of These Days,” the local mayor shows up at the house of dentist Aurelio Escovar one morning with a painful toothache. At first, the dentist refuses to see him. The mayor is, apparently,...
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What are some examples of imagery in "One of These Days"?
There is vivid imagery in "One of These Days" in the description of Aurelio Escovar, in the description of the setting, and in the description of the painful tooth extraction. Aurelio is a tidy,...