A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Literary Analysis

“Which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish”. (Marquez, 1) Marquez was very descriptive with the setting almost making it seem like you were there with the character. In “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses the power of imagery to help the reader picture the story. First, the story is about a family that manages to stumble across an old man. The husband finds the old man turned over in the mud. He quickly gets his wife and they examine the old man. Eventually their neighbor concludes that he is an angel. They concluded that he was coming to take their child because he was sick. After a while they began to feel bad and started deciding what they should do with him. They finally decided that they would let him stay at there home. With the fact that he was still a strange sighting they didn’t let him stay inside the house but inside the

To help with his decision he decided to write a letter to the Pope asking what this old man is. This didn’t discourage the crowds of people from making the journey to see this creature. Thus the family came up with a plan to charge people 5 cents to see the angel. They felt that as long as the angel is here they might as well make a profit from him. People would come and pay the fee to see him and try to ask him questions. Unfortunately the angel didn’t reply and left many people questioning as to why he doesn’t get annoyed with them. Others were trying to get the fathers of his wings to try and “fix” their broken body parts. Yet the angel almost never got furious with the onlookers. It was a matter of time before another creature had arrived in the town. This creature was a woman with the body of a spider and the head of a person. Since it was a new arrival everybody started going to see this creature instead of the