A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
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All Characters The Old Man (the Angel) Pelayo Elisenda The Neighbor Woman The Child Father Gonzaga The Spider Woman
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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

by

Gabriel García Márquez

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When the disheveled old man appears in the mud of Pelayo and Elisenda’s courtyard, he is in the “pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather,” and his scraggly “buzzard wings” are the only outward marker…

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