A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

The old man is just a man. He has no special powers and has the normal appearance of a man, with the exception of his wings. The only thing known about this man is that he speaks an unknown language and can just barely fly. And also, as he is locked up and having stuffed thrown at him, an angel might have the power to break free. But perhaps this is just what the man wants the people to think. Although angels are not able to lie, they don’t have to advertize the truth. So in order to not give proof to people’s suspicions that the man is an angel, the man chooses to not do anything out of normal. And the fact that as an angel he doesn’t try to escape from his prison-like home may show that he is there for a purpose. After he comes, the son gets better and the crabs go away. The wings also prove to be just enough to get people interested in the old man so the family has a chance to charge admission and make a small fortune. Conveniently, after things get noticeably better for the family, a spider-girl traveling with a group comes into town. Naturally as she entertains the people more with her story, versus just sitting and doing nothing, everyone stops going to see the angel. This gives the angel a chance to leave and fly back to where ever he came from. The mystery of this man makes it very hard to distinguish for sure whether or not he is just a man or in fact an angel. Since he does not have the divinity and grace of a true angel, but yet he is not just a normal man, this comes to the conclusion that he may be a fallen-angel. He may be stuck on earth but trying to obtain God’s forgiveness to enter heaven again by helping those in need. Another hint that he is a fallen-angel could be the symbolism in the very beginning of the story when Pelayo finds the old man fallen in the mud unable to get up. "He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings."