In the short story "Waiting" written by Peggy McNally the narrator of the story tells the reader about this lowest paid substitute teacher, and what she does five days a week. The way this story uses repetition, future tense, and syntax can convey the theme that if an individual live their life mundane and settled they won't have any moral to move forward in their lives. The repetition of the phrase "Five days a week the lowest paid substitute teacher in the district drives her father's used Mercury to Hough and 79th...he lets her drive his car five days a week towards the big lake, to the NE corner of Hough and 79th and you know the rest". This evidence highlights that in the beginning part it’s the start of a new day and when it says "and