One Of These Days Antagonist

Protagonist versus antagonist, the good versus the bad. In almost every story, the story goes around the protagonist who is seen as the hero while, the antagonist creates the conflict for the protagonist. Aurelio Escovar, the protagonist of the story One of these Days by Garcia Marquez is a poor town dentist who is one of the victims of the town’s political corruption. He has no power, no wealth, and his office is poorly conditioned and dirty. Opposing the dentist is the town’s mayor who abuses his power. From the start of his introduction, he is already showing off his power over the dentist by demanding the dentist to treat him in which his son tells him, “He says if you don’t take out his tooth, he’ll shoot you.” In response, the dentist