Question

Compare the behavior of the villagers towards old man in old man with enormous wings story

Answer 1

Wings represent power, speed, and limitless freedom of motion. In the Christian tradition, angels are often represented as beautiful winged figures, and García Márquez plays off of this cultural symbolism because, ironically, the wings of the “angel” in the story convey only a sense of age and disease.The moral of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is that miracles occur in unlikely ways. Pelayo and his wife do not know what to make of the very old man, but the townspeople treat the man like he is some of kind of supernatural creature capable of carrying out miracles