Discuss how the story blends reality with elements of fantasy and the super natural in the story The Roman Image?
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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is an intriguing blend of the ordinary and the supernatural, of reality and the fantastic. Consider the following:
A girl disobeys her parents (real) and is turned into a giant spider (fantastical).
A very sick little boy was healed (real) and, among others, a blind man did not have his sight restored but did grow three new teeth (supernatural).
A very old man (real) has enormous, and very natural-looking, wings (unreal).
Angels (or should I say, winged creatures who are apparently responsible for at least one actual miracle) are true and respected religious symbols (real) but this particular one is kept in a chicken...
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