The Pain Scale Eula Biss Analysis

In the writing, “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss, the author compares multiple things to one another. She is describing how different concepts can be used to show the confusion of the pain scale used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. Eula compares the thought of Christ the number zero. She first starts out by stating that “The concept of Christ is considerably older than the concept of zero. Both are problematic – both have their fallacies and their immaculate conceptions. But the problem of zero troubles me significantly more than the problem of Christ…Zero is not a number. Or at least, it does not behave like a number. It does not add, subtract, or multiply like other numbers. Zero is a number in the way that Christ was a man” (Biss 28.)