More Latin America 2

Here is an excerpt from WSc's paper.  What are its strengths?  How could he empower it?

"In 'One of these Days,' Garcia Marquez creates a metaphor for the Latin American people in the form of the dentist.  He paints a picture of a simple man who wants to keep to himself and live his life.  The man whom Garcia describes sounds like an old farmer, a worker in a rural area.  He wakes early and sets to work, working hard and steadily at his job, polishing the false teeth and arranging his office.  The man looks at the simple things in life, whether it will rain before lunch and looking at the birds outside of his window. His office lays plain and bare, being 'a poor office: an old wooden chair, the pedal drill, a glass case with ceramic bottles.'   He cares not for what is happening in the town or what the important people are doing.  He stays to himself and concentrates on his place in society.  The dentist can be interpreted as the poor, a man who is different in almost every way from the upper class, which was a great portion of the common Latin American population.  The mayor is also a metaphor for the upper class.  The mayor comes with the need to have his infected tooth removed, and he wants it done quickly.  The dentist, seemingly uninterested and apathetic towards the mayor, continues on with what he was doing, not reacting to the mayor's threats that he would shoot him if he did not do his job.  He merely replies that he will come and shoot the mayor himself.  The mayor resembles a foreign power, similar to the US in most situations.  The foreign power comes in wanting something; the Latin American state says that they are busy and don't want America there.  America threatens them; Latin America fights back, and the whole thing leads to a painful experience for America and a hostile remaining relationship."