The Old, Bald, Toothless Angel

The supposed saint in the point A Very Old Man with Enormous go by Gabriel Garcia Marquez differs from the usual conception of paragons with the following char wreakeristics its physical appearance, its effect upon the fraternity, and the telepathic occurrences of its front. The usual conception on the images of backers are ro bitticized images of blonde electric s pretendrren with sm all(prenominal), white move and rosy cheeks. However, the saint in Marquezs story is described as an dis pulmonary tuberculosisd mankind, dirty, smelly, and possesses moulder move. He was dressed manage a ragpicker. at that place were only a few faded hairs left on his denuded skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful groom of a drenched great-grandfather had taken away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever tangle in bungle (Marquez, 387). In addition, the use of the word tremendous employ to described the elderly mans wings are strewn with mud and rotting, full of small insects and parasites. The characters in the story immediately perceive the oldish man to be a fallen angel, because of the state of his wings.Also, the enormity of the wings give emphasis on Marquez use of the magic realism literary genre in the story. The shape and size of the wings may be amplify in a realistic point of view besides the use of enormous gives the proof lector a more realistic approach to the old man. It also presents an ordinary experience on part of the characters since Pelayo and Elisenda did non register shock of the old mans appearance but of his condition lying in the mud and in a downcast state. As the story revolves on the theme of magical realism, the characters in the story do not express shock all over the old mans appearance.They exhibit behaviour as though they see kinds of magical creatures a good deal in their lives. Indeed, the first reaction of the couple is more a cont radiction in terms toward the whole theme of the story a realistic emplacement. They deduced that the old man may be a castaway from a ship crosswise the sea that was wrecked by some storm. They based their judgement when they act to ask the old man and responded in a strong boaters voice with a foreign dialect. However, the couple was not convince and decided to ask a woman who had experience with such matters.The old woman needed only a glance and immediately reason out that the old man was an angel sent to take the couples ailing child (Marquez, 388). Thus, the themes of magic and realism come together from divers(prenominal) point of views. The old mans effect on the community, upon interview the suggestion of the old woman, also became magical in one point. As exhibited by the behaviour of the townspeople in the story, they immediately associate the angel with various miracles and scenarios that the angel was sent to be the leader of the world, to be a five star general in order to end wars, and such.The angel is also viewed by the community not as a necromantic creature but rather as a circus animal. by and by all the commotion the old man brought to the community, the couple decided to fool away a fee for everybody who wanted to see the angel. Its popularity declined when a circus act visited the town with a spider-lady as its primary(prenominal) attraction. The people favored the spider-woman over the angel as the spider had a personal story on why she turned to such while the angel did nothing but sit on the chicken coop.Marquez presents an alternative conception of the angel that the spider, with all its grotesquery and exhibiting usual emotions like pain and emotional suffering, greatly diverted the people rather than an old, mute angel rotting in its place. great deal favored amusement, even if the object is supernatural in nature. Apart from this, Marquez presents the angel to be a mere object of interest for only a limited time unt il the townspeople shifted their attention toward the spider. Angels are often regarded to be holy beings, that are capable of miracles, and provides good in peoples lives.But the angel in the story remains isolated from the community and only act as though he had no forethought of his condition. His characteristics were also a downfall toward the perception of the community he was old, toothless, with rotting wings and a pronounced stench. Even though the old man was first conceived as an angel, people did not pay the same union of attention compared to the spider-woman, who exhibited an emotional plight that greatly amused the people. The paranormal presence of the angel did not stir bewilderment on the characters of the story quite they presented keen interest and ill-disguised curiosity.Also, their immediate association of the old man as a universal solution to all their worldly-problems became the definitive character of the angel. Yet, they did not bother to place the ang el in greater prominence, as they treat him until one day, he grew new wings and began to fly toward the ocean horizon. The slice of the angel also consentd with the growth of Pelayo and Elisendas child, and deduced that the angel took away the childs sickness. And because of the fee they charged to see the angel, the couple became rich from their profits.Marquez persuades the reader into a personal interpretation of the old man just like the people in the story. He presents the old man with its characteristics and it is up to the reader to decide whether it is an angel or not. However, Marquez also utilizes several peculiar situations and characteristics that coincide with the angels presence in the story. His enormous wings is the main point. It appears as though it was nothing out of the extraordinary that the characters in the story were accustomed to seeing wings deeply implanted in a persons structure.Also, as the angel grew another set of wings, it could have been assumed that it would resemble the pearly-white color of a real angel but the old mans wings were that of a front man (Marquez, 392). Marquez leaves room for interpretation on the part of the reader as to what the old man really is. He presents a wholly different perspective of an angel, as presented by the examples of the people in which the old revolved upon. It may be an angel or just an old, toothless man with enormous wings.