A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Marquez is a prime example of magical realism. Not the traditional in any form and being praised amongst critics, “Marquez uses magical realism to blend reality and fantasy so that the distinction between the two erases” (Tillburg and Goodall). This blending of distinctions are what give Marquez’s piece such a lasting effect on readers today. The two main magical characters in his piece are the man with wings and the spider girl. While the rest of Marquez’s characters, scenes, and circumstances in his story could be narrative account of a rural community taken from a history book. These characters provide excellent examples for a formalism & new criticism review; whereas. How the rest of Marquez’s world interacts with them is the bases for a structuralism literary review. In the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” the townspeople do not fully realize they could have been in front of one of God’s divine creations. The old man that Pelayo …show more content…
He uses this style to write about reality in a non-realistic way. Many people cannot get past rationalism preventing them from seeing that reality is not all about sunshine and roses. Readers have to use their imagination and criticize the structure of his writings. Which is exactly what he did in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. People have realize that things are never what they seem. It is easy for the people to accept the spider’s uniqueness, because the spider got changed by the god’s as a result of doing something wrong. However, the elder man arrived unique which was not okay with the townspeople. Judging another for his or her appearance and showing ignorance because of it will cost in the future. The ignorance of the townspeople blinded them from all of the things that the angel was really doing for