Patience is a Virtue In Jennifer Skalka short story, “The Man Who Caught on Fire,” she tells of her own experience on a hot summers evening, and her thought process thought the day. Jennifer Skalka never introduces her thesis to give the story more depth and to support the main theme. Based on the theme of the story the thesis would sound like this: all the comforts in the world will never add up to the value of kindness and patience. In the beginning of the short story, Jennifer tells the reader she is hot, irritated, and worrisome: “It was nearly 100 degrees in Washington…” “I thought of the refrigeration, full of recently purchased groceries that had probably all spoiled.”(44). Nothing is going Jennifer’s way, and patience is not a present quality. Frustrated, Jennifer calls an operator to restore power to her house; Jennifer is so worried about getting the cold air back on, she is impatient and unfriendly to the operator, “No,” is snipped. “I’m fine here.” Fin, meaning unfailingly annoyed.”(44). Jennifer doesn’t even have gratefulness on her mind, which at a later date she realizes, and finds disturbing.…show more content… Jennifer wants the reader to experience and learn from her own mistakes by here unique presentation. The thesis, “all the comforts in the world will never add up to the value of kindness and patience,” is based on Jennifer’s last page illustrated here, “I think about some hot and frustrated woman out there, impatient to return to her air-conditioned life, and the person working outside, late in the night, to make it so.”(45). Jennifer was so worried about her own comfort and unanimated objects that she failed to realize the operator was having an even tougher time with the heat and someone rushing