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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Summary & Study Guide Description
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Plot Summary
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While Garcia Marquez makes no divisions in the text, this discussion will consider the plot in four separate stages. The story begins with the "old man's" arrival and ends with his departure. The intervening period, which covers several years, may be divided into two stages: the brief sensation caused by his appearance and a long period of declining interest in which the strange visitor is all but forgotten.
Arrival
The setting is an unnamed coastal village, at an unspecified time in the past. A long rainstorm has washed crabs up from the beach into Pelayo's house, creating an odor he thinks may be affecting his sick newborn child. Disposing of their carcasses, he sees a figure groaning on the ground in his courtyard; as he moves closer, he discovers it to be "an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his...
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