Magical Realism In Bless Me Ultima, And The Handsomest

In Magical realism it is impossible to determine where reality ends and the extraordinary begins. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary magical realism is “a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction.’’ Magical Realism stories “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, “Bless Me Ultima’’, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” use magical realism elements of interweaving the magical and mundane seamlessly, setting the stories in an otherwise ordinary world, and having a metamorphosis take place which is treated as normal by the characters. Making readers question what is seen as reality to others. In magical realism the magical and mundane are interwoven seamlessly. To the point where it seems as if the magical is mundane to the characters in the story. For example in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a couple finds an old man who is described as having a “pitiful condition of drenched great grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had” and a “survival of a celestial conspiracy’’. Because of the old man’s dirty appearance and the people's religious beliefs that he is a “fallen angel” …show more content…
For example in the novel Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, there are witches who take on the form of coyotes this event is seen as ordinary and characters in the story don’t think much of it other than that they know the coyotes are “evil” witches. Another example of a metamorphosis taking place is in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the old man regrows his wings and transforms as “large stiff feathers began to grow on his wings’’. This Exhibits the fact that due to the characters cultural and religious beliefs these metamorphoses are seen as ordinary instead of as a