In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," Gabriel Garcia Marquez chooses to use an angel and depicts him as an old, frigid man with enormous wings stuck in the mud. The unusual being is described as very weary and almost unable to fend for himself.
Something that caught my attention was the fact that this writer has chosen to paint the image of a frail angel in our minds. Often, angels are associated with the idea of God and/or the devil. Angels are thought to be timeless beings.
Why does everything about the being contradict the universal image of an angel and what was the purpose of this contrast?
2 comments:
I think that the author is doing this to challenge the readers uniform beliefs and expectations. Normally we would think that an angel will come and solve all of the problems with a pretty glowing halo around it.
I agree with Mariatu. At the same time our society sets distinctive ideas in our minds of "how things are supposed to be like". In the story it is about a fallen man with wings that everyone claims to be an angel.
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