The Use Of Force

             The Use of Force. By William Carlos Williams
             In the beginning of this story, the Doctor starts of with a kind and gentle posture towards the child. As the struggle ensues though, the Doctor grows more and more aggressive with the child and annoyed with the father. While he understands how the father and child feels, he is in haste to diagnose the child's illness. The Narrator shows us that in anger, people like to use force, they seem to enjoy it.
             The Doctor understands how the child feels that he is the enemy and sees him as a threat. Actually, I think he feels sympathy for her. For example, "I ground my teeth in disgust. If only they wouldn't use the word "hurt" I might be able to get somewhere." Also, when the child attacks him and the mother calls her a bad girl, The Doctors says, "For heaven's sake, I broke in. Don't call me nice man to her. I'm here to look at her throat on the chance that she might have diphtheria and possibly die of it."
             Even though up till this point the child has been less than pleasant towards the Doctor, he says, "After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat", showing that he still has the patience and adoration for the child. Although, in short time he became frustrated with the father for not being able to hold the child even though he knew it was because the father didn't want to hurt is daughter. The author shows us that in this passage: "The father tried his best, and he was a big man but the fact that she was his daughter, his shame for her behavior and dread of hurting her made him release her just at that critical moment several times when I had almost achieved success, till I wanted to kill him."
             After some time struggling, the Doctor starts to get mad with the child, his adoration towards her starts to fade away. "But the worst of it was that I too had got beyond reason. I coul...

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