An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, A Very Old Man with Enormous W

A Very Old Man with ample Wings synopsisIn Gabriel Garcia Marquezs A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, he was able to exaggerate an element of our lives in effect to switch off that everything we have known and come to believe is actually not what it seems. Marquez has misshapen something so solid in our beliefs such as an angel, in order to help us understand that nothing can be sour from popular belief and appearances. Upon immediate viewing of the angel, the perception of reality has changed in its entirety. All past knowledge has become irrelevant now that it has been turn out false. In an instant, an entire belief system has crumbled.Pelayo and Elisenda refuse to think of this valet de chambre as an angel even though he clearly was. That was how they skipped everywhere the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. Angels in our minds have been known as beautiful creatures that a re smooth and clean. They are the epitome of mans view of perfection. Marquez has created an angel that is rank, disturbing...