"Knife"

In my group discussion of "The Knife"  one idea that was brought up that I didn't give a lot of thought to was the fact that he compared being a surgeon to a priest. A lot of people talked about the many ways these two comparisons made sense. Most of the time was spent talking about this one topic. A heated debate was started from this. Many knew ideas were formed and even Mrs. Gilman said she didn't think about some of these ideas. I'm glad this was brought up since it definitely helped me understand this essay better.
They mentioned that a priest saves people's lives by having them except God into their hearts and a surgeon saves people by performing surgery. This better helped me understand the meaning of him talking about how stressful his job is since he basically can end or save your life right then and there.