After reading Gabriel Marquez’s short story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, I believe that the mysterious winged man is indeed an angle. Throughout the narrative, many of the characters refuse to believe the sickly man to be an angle. Pelayo, and Elisenda believe the man to be a shipwrecked sailor, while Father Gonzaga believes him to be an imposter, as the man does not adhere to his angelic standards. Only Pelayo and Elisenda’s neighbor, “who knew everything about life and death” could see the man for who he truly is, and even then she wishes for the angel to be clubbed to death.
Although the characters throughout the novel, refuse to believe the man to be angelic due to his non-angelic and unholy appearance, “He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his …show more content…
Death and despair loomed on the earth, prior to the arrival of the man. “The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the bach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten selfish.” With his infant child sick, Pelayo chucked endless corpses of crabs into the sea, hopelessly trying to cure his newborn. However, when doing so, he discovers the old man with enormous wings, who after bringing him back home, quickly cures his son, and allows him to gain enormous wealth and status in his town. Furthermore, the man performs several consolation miracles, such as granting new teeth to a blind man, making a paralytic woman almost win the lottery, and causing a lepers sores to sprout sunflowers. Although these miracles may appear to be divine to many, the characters in the novel refuse to believe these as work of the divine as they are too deeply entrenched with their own selfish realities, that they can not witness the magic and divinity that surrounds their
Although the characters throughout the novel, refuse to believe the man to be angelic due to his non-angelic and unholy appearance, “He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his …show more content…
Death and despair loomed on the earth, prior to the arrival of the man. “The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the bach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten selfish.” With his infant child sick, Pelayo chucked endless corpses of crabs into the sea, hopelessly trying to cure his newborn. However, when doing so, he discovers the old man with enormous wings, who after bringing him back home, quickly cures his son, and allows him to gain enormous wealth and status in his town. Furthermore, the man performs several consolation miracles, such as granting new teeth to a blind man, making a paralytic woman almost win the lottery, and causing a lepers sores to sprout sunflowers. Although these miracles may appear to be divine to many, the characters in the novel refuse to believe these as work of the divine as they are too deeply entrenched with their own selfish realities, that they can not witness the magic and divinity that surrounds their