A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Why does the narrator stress such detail as his "dirty and half-plucked" wings and his grossly physical,animalistictraits?

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The narrator stresses the old man's disheveled appearance in order to dissuade us from immediately believing the old man to be an angel. In my own opinion, we are meant to be skeptical as the townspeople.

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings