In “Tuesday Siesta”, Marquez expresses imagery …show more content…
In which the dentist tries to get revenge on the mayor for “twenty dead men”. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2). Although the mayor has a higher power than him. Marquez asserts, “It has to be without anesthesia,” He said.” Because you have an abscess.” The dentist says this is the reason, but in reality it is not. The dentist inflicts pain on the mayor, but doesn’t really do anything extreme enough to have an impact on the situation or claim revenge for what is going on in the government. At the end, “Send the bill,” he said. To you or the or the town?” The mayor didn’t look at him..It's the same damn thing.” (Marquez 465). This highlights that the government is using the town's money for personal use while the town suffers. This also reevaluates the reason the dentist doesn’t have a decent looking office. Gabriel Garcia Alvarez endorses imagery to reinforce magical realism by using the symbolic metaphor of a dentist and prude mayor to compare how the government of “La Violencia” is denying its people proper rights. In other words the selfishness and taking money for unjust reasons that doesn’t have a positive impact on the town's