Summary The story "Pill Pusher" by Carolyn A. Drake begins with a tired storyteller working at a pharmacy. The narrator instructs a woman to wait in line. The woman is very impatient and frustrated that she has to wait. The narrator points out the line where the woman has to wait, while making assumptions about some of the other customers. However, the woman becomes more and more impatient. The woman suddenly breaks out in frustration, and a conflict develops between the narrator and the woman, whereby the pharmacist ends up checking up on the woman. As the pharmacists looks at the woman's history, she finds out that the woman's daughter is suffering from Leukemia. The narrator gets a bad conscience, and to offset her treatment of the woman, she quickly finds the medication the woman has asked for. The woman ends up apologizing for her behavior and the pharmacist ends up smiling for the first time.
Analytical essay
As the story begins, we get introduced to the main character, who is the person working at the pharmacy. We do not actually get any direct information about the narrator's gender in the text. There is not even a clue of the person is either a man or woman, but when looking deeper into the text, there is some relevant clues such as” She’s not much older than me - maybe ten years” (P. 3, l. 95). The main character is here comparing themselves to the woman. Also the lines: ”I’ll bet ten to one he offers to get me a cup of coffee while he waits, because he’s just such a nice guy” (P. 1, ll. 20-21), most likely when we say ”will you get a cup of coffee with me?” we mean going on a date. It might make sense to assume that this is a woman, as the text gives a small hint that a male customer has been flirtatious, therefore it might be a woman. That is why I have been described the main character, as being a woman.
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