Loneliness In Sheila Goldstein's Short Story 'Sunday Night'

Sunday Night
In this short story my opinion relating to what the theme is or meaning of this story is, loneliness. A seventy- two-year-old woman named Mrs. Sheila Goldstein (whose husband slept and never woke up) always came into the emergency room every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. complaining about constipation and loneliness that accrues from eating left over pot roast day after day. One Sunday night at 8 p.m., she came in the emergency room stating that she is dying and that the pain is eleven clutching her belly in and waddling. “An imposing four-foot eleven in running shoes and carrot- colored hair, Mrs. Sheila Goldstein clutched her belly and waddles up to the Emergency Department triage desk, where Anna was waiting stretching her calves

It applies religious faith by aiding the poor and oppressed through involvement in political and civic affairs. In other words, Liberation theology stresses the importance of solving the concrete, material problems on Earth, rather than waiting for God to remedy these problems in Heaven. This comes in affect with the way that farmer thinks about and practices medicine through his effort of understanding Haitians relationship with Voodoo. Although, Farmer doesn’t believe in God: he embraces Catholicism and yet questions it extremely. Farmer’s conflicted relationship with science and religion makes him a natural fit for practicing medicine in Haiti, where he makes an effort to understand Haitians’ relationship with Voodoo. In Farmer’s life, religion and science are almost inseparable. Farmer embraces this idea in his medical practice, where solving patients’ immediate problems is his key indeed, his only guideline. In effect, there would be no purpose in Farmer’s practicing medicine around the world if he didn’t have a strong moral reason for doing so: there would be no “how” without a “why.” A powerful rebuke to the hiding away of poverty,” farmer calls