Marquez uses the description of the place and all the items stored there to symbolize the middle class. He mentions an old wooden chair, the pedal drill, a glass case with ceramic bottles, and a window with a shoulder-high cloth curtain to show a poor office of a middle class dentist. He also mentioned about the crumbling ceiling and a dusty spider web with spider's eggs and dead insects. The author does not say enough, besides the political power, to symbolize the mayor.
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