With
meaning the original pattern or model after which a thing is made, the
story itself is an archetype of a fairy tale with the role of the supernatural mixing with the
mundane. However, while Marquez's "" is in the style of a folk or fairy tale, it does
not provide a moral lesson. Instead, it blurs the line between the significant and the trivial
as the townspeople misinterpret and then become weary of the old man with wings.
There is also a blurring of the role of the old man with enormous wings, whose
appearance hardly affects Pelayo who perceives little difference between the "angel"
and the crabs in his...
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