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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez, Themes…
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez
Settings
Place
Small coastal town in Latin America
Vague, mid-20th centur
Atom: gloomy rainy
Plot
Arrival & Discovery
Found in muddy courtyard, mistaken for sailor
Exploitation & Spectacle
Put in chicken coop, crowds pay to see him
Arrival of the Spider Woman
A more relatable spectacle draws crowd Away
Symbols
Wings
Coexistence of sacred and mundane
Chicken Coop
Imprisonment, exploitation, 'boxed Beliefs
Spider woman: Preference for simple, Moralistische Stories
[Characters )
The old man
Pelaio&Elizenda
Father Cogonzo
The spider woman
Themes
Human Nature & Exploitation
Townspeople seek spectacle, not meaning
Contrast btw blind and condo dogma
Magical Realism: Supernatural blended with dogma