How can Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" be interpreted as an "Eastertide" story?

The wondrous
ending of Gabriel Marquez's story proves that the old man, ridiculed and berated by man, is
greater than the fallible people as he finally flies away,

with the ungainly flapping that slipped on the light and couldn't get a grip on the
air.  But he did manage to gain altitude.  Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and
for him, when she saw him pass over the last houses, holding himself up in some way with the
risky flapping of a senile vulture.  She kept watching him...until it was no longer possible for
her to see him, because then he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on
the the horizon of the sea.

For, the old man with
enormous wings transcends the foolish superstitions and credulity and greed of man that would
kill him, and, instead, establishes his...