Gabriel García Márquez's short story, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings was very weird to read. I felt like it was written by sitting in a room with kindergardeners asking them to help him write a story. It seemed like Márquez was asking the kids questions like, Is he apart of the circus? I didn't really like the short story at all. It was extremely confusing but it did have very vivid descriptions and the last sentence was amazing. "...,because then he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea." That last sentence was the part of the short story that stood out to me the most because I can picture this woman sitting in a garden cutting onions but looking off into the distance as a person slowly becomes just a dot in the distance.
Questions I had while reading the short story:
1. Is this old man actually an angel?
2. Why didn't the family release the angel?
3. Why did the hold the angel captive?
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