Analyse af Carolyn A. Drakes novelle 'Pill Pusher'

The short story “Pill Pusher” written by Carolyn A. Drake, takes place in a pharmacy and is told from the point of view of a pharmacist on her working shift. She is very unhappy with her job and judges every customer who works into the pharmacy. All hell breaks loose when one woman waiting in line gets impatient, and this gets on the narrator´s nerves. She starts creating negative assumptions about the woman in her mind, and when she has to help her, she sees that the woman is buying medicine for her child. At first, she thinks the child just has a cold, and she believes the woman should not have been so impatient, since some of the other customers in line might be in more need of getting their medicine quickly. But then she goes to check on the woman`s notes from other pharmacist who has dispatched her and finds out that her daughter has leukemia. The narrator now changes her point of view and realizes that her job is more important than she thought, and for the first time she smiles with genuine at a customer.