Old Man With Enormous Wings Analysis

There are many miracles that happens around us throughout our life, Similar to that “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Marquez is a short story of magical realism or fairy tale and a form of the natural vs. supernatural that occurred with Pelayo and Elisenda. The story is about an old man with wings who is stuck in mud during storm in Pelayo and Elisenda’s courtyard who could be an angel. Marquez presents the story in a way that uses the old man with enormous wings to convey the reader about human’s undistinguished religion to gain their own. In this magical realism Marquez exposes us to a magical element with his tone to make us question whether the old man is an angle or just an old man with wings and whether people judge a person’s

Marquez states that, “He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn 't get up, impeded by his enormous wings”. In this quote Marquez is conveying the reader that old man is an angel by implying the fact that he has “enormous wings”. In general, wings could symbolize many things, such as wings on birds or of a plane but in this story Marquez gives us a sense that wings symbolize of an angel due to the fact that many villagers gathered around to see old man and play with him even though he was covered in

Marquez’s tone gives sense of humanity when he said “Pelayo and Elisenda were happy with fatigue, for in less than a week they had crammed their rooms with money and the line of pilgrims waiting their turn to enter still reached beyond the horizon.” Here from Marquez tone it seems that nowadays to be happy people will do anything to make profit. Here Pelayo and Elisenda are only thinking about themselves and how to make themselves money, basically they just put a price on angel and it gives reader sense in loss of humanity that nowadays people basically put price on everything to profit