In "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the villagers are obsessed with things that are out of the ordinary. At the beginning of the story it seems as if their fascination with old man with wings in because of the fact that he might be an angel, and therefore would mean that he cure the sick and do other wonderful things for them. A large portion of the story is focused on the villagers trying to figure out if the old man is in fact an angel. They treat him like a circus animal as Pelayo and Elisenda charge admission for people to come see him, and the villagers flock to their house and throw food at him and burn him with a branding iron. It is significant to the story that the villagers are also interested with the spider-maiden because it reveals that they are not fascinated by the old man for the sole purpose that he might be an angel, but they curious about almost anything that is different.
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