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    This excerpt summarizes Gene H. Bell-Villada's analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It discusses how the story parodies typical fairy tale characteristics by depicting the winged stranger in non-stereotypical ways. It also examines how Garcia Marquez portrays the characters in the story, including the villagers and religious officials, in a comic but good-natured manner.

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    This excerpt summarizes Gene H. Bell-Villada's analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It discusses how the story parodies typical fairy tale characteristics by depicting the winged stranger in non-stereotypical ways. It also examines how Garcia Marquez portrays the characters in the story, including the villagers and religious officials, in a comic but good-natured manner.

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    This excerpt summarizes Gene H. Bell-Villada's analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It discusses how the story parodies typical fairy tale characteristics by depicting the winged stranger in non-stereotypical ways. It also examines how Garcia Marquez portrays the characters in the story, including the villagers and religious officials, in a comic but good-natured manner.

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    This excerpt summarizes Gene H. Bell-Villada's analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It discusses how the story parodies typical fairy tale characteristics by depicting the winged stranger in non-stereotypical ways. It also examines how Garcia Marquez portrays the characters in the story, including the villagers and religious officials, in a comic but good-natured manner.

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    'The Master of Short Forms,lI in Garcia Marquez~' The Man and His Work, The
    University of North Carolina Press, '1990, pp, 119-38"

    [In the following excerpt, Bell-Villada asserts that lIA Very Old Man with
    Enormous Wings" contains parodies of typical fairy-tale characteristics that are
    commonly expected by the reader, such as the depiction of the winged stranger
    as an angel, He also examines Garcia Marquez's comic but good-natured
    portrayal of his characters]
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    "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is subtitled "A Tate for Children ll but l

    what fairy-tale characteristics it has are affectionately parodied throughout. On


    one hand, there is unmistakable magic in the arrival of the winged humanoid, the
    apparent angel who seems to have crash-landed in the courtyard of Pelayo and
    Elisenda, a modest rural couple living in a coastal village, On the other hand,
    everything about the visitor completely contradicts our standard, mythified,
    Western image of God's angels" Rather than stereotypically young, heroic-
    looking, and blond, with sumptuous garments and wings all in white, Garcia
    Marquez's mysterious stranger is dressed in rags, is nearly bald and toothless,
    and has soiled "buzzard wings" strewn with parasites, His being temporarily
    lodged in the chicken coop further detracts from the dignity we normally expect
    of otherworldly creatures.

    At the same time the official emissaries of the Catholic faith show their comic
    limitations, Father Gonzaga may bear the name of a legendary ,Jesuit saint and
    hero, and indeed he is a robust former woodcutter, but his expectation that the
    angel should know Latin as "the language of God" demonstrates his innocence
    of scriptural Hebrew and Greek" Meanwhile in perfect medieval fashion, the
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    learned argufiers in Rome debate endlessly as to whether the man in question


    possesses a navel or speaks Aramaic (the language Jesus probably spoke), and
    they even ask how many times-that old Scholastic chestnut-the stranded
    angel could fit on the head of a pin! (The simplest solution, of course, would be

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    for the churchmen to betake themselves to the Caribbean village and use the
    evidence of their eyes and ears; but their Scholastic doctrine has yet to catch up
    with the empirical method . ) Still, it cannot be denied that the visitor has the
    divine capacity to perfon'll miracles, however skewed they be-such as giving a
    blind man three new teeth or having sunflowers sprout on a leper's sores .
    Perhaps they are practical jokes he plays on the gawking townspeople.

    For the ordinary folk in this story-their notions as well as their ailments-come
    across as equally comical,: the rustic who thinks the angel should be "mayor of
    the world," or the invalid woman who counts her heartbeats, or the Portuguese
    man disturbed by the noises of the stars, Garcia Marquez's humor with his
    fictive villagers, it should be noted. is mostly gentle and good-natured, The only
    dark rnoment comes toward the end, when Pelayo and Elisenda, having gotten
    rich from exhibiting "their" angel, now build a mansion, and she wears satin
    shoes and fine silks,. In the meantime the very source of their wealth is shooed
    around and out of the house by Elisenda with her broorn, to be finally consigned
    to the shed. His wings are healing, however, and one spring day he flies off just
    as Elisenda is peeling onions (the same effect of Fernanda's sheets in One
    Hundred Years), and the onetime moneymaker-turned-nuisance recedes as "a
    dot on the horizon of the sea" before he disappears for good . Without
    demonstrating the aggressive satire of Luis Bunuel in movies such as Simon of
    the Desert or The Milky Way, Garcia Marquez shares in the great Spanish film
    director's laughing sensibility.. ,,,

    Source Citation:
    Bell-Vii/ada, Gene H. "The Master of Short Forms." EXPLORING Short Stories"
    Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003" Discovering Collection" Gale. Upper S1. Clair
    High School. 11 Mar.. 2009 <http://find.galegroup"com/srcx/infomark.do?
    &contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001 &prodld=DC
    &docld=EJ2112200430&sQurce=gale&srcprod=DISC
    &userGroupName=uppe55745&version=1.0>.

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    EJ2112200430

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