In this short story "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams we come along a doctor who is being called on house visit. Once he arrives he is being greeted by the parents of a girl. They seem like nice caring people. from the symptoms that the parents describe he suspects that the patient may have diphtheria. The girl does not say anything nor lets the doctor examine her throat. After numerous please by her parents and the doctor himself she still refuses the observation. With no other choice the doctor and the girls father use force to open her throat. Its not easy but after numerous tries they do succeed. It turns out that the girl is seriously sick.
I don't know what the exact meaning of this story might be, but i think that the author is trying to show that sometimes the use of force is necessary for the persons own good. In this case that may have saved this girls life.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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