A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
why does narrator stress such details on hisdirty n half plucked wings and his glossry physical animalistic trair
animalistic traits
animalistic traits
I think that Marquez wants to juxtapose our stereotype of an angel with what an angel, in this case, actually is. People may think an angel as a clean white cherub-like figure. In this story, the angel looks quite the opposite inviting people's scorn instead of reverence.