Magical realism in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (1955) is a story by Garbriel Garcia Márquez, a Latin American author. This story contains many elements of Magical Realism, such as having a fantastical element while being based in reality, having a deeper meaning, and not needing to justify or explain human events or actions. The magical elements in this story are the old man (who is assumed to be an angel) and the girl who was transformed into a spider because she disobeyed her parents. The angel is the element of Magical Realism that discovers the mysterious parts of life. Many people believe in supernatural beings such as angels. Angels are usually thought to protect and lead into the afterlife. It was believed that the angel had come to take the child to heaven. Another magical element was the illnesses of the people who were healed by the angel. There was “a poor woman who had been counting her heartbeats since birth and was short of numbers; a Portuguese man who couldn't sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him; a sleepwalker who got up at night to undo the things he had done while awake" (527). The realistic elements include everything else in this story. The people's curiosity about the angel and the spider lady is authentic. This element shows the curiosity of the common people. Another characteristic of the people is shown by Peylo and Elisenda, who take advantage of the angel by keeping him in a chicken coop and charging admission to see him scaring children into obeying their parents was normal until one night she went against her parents' wishes to go dancing. an angel and an everyday world intersect, and no one doubts the appearance. The deeper meaning is told through the angel's life after being caged and has an impact on anyone who reads it. This short story would be useful for anyone read it, whether he had read a lot of magical realism stories or not had done. Gabriel Garcia Márquez does a perfect job of “transforming the ordinary and the everyday into the fantastic and unreal” (Flores 114). I enjoyed this story very much. Works Cited Flores, Angel. "Magical Realism in Hispanic American Fiction." Magical realism: theory, history, community. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham; NC: Duke UP, 1995: 109-118.Garcia Márquez, Gabriel. "A very old man with enormous wings." Norton's introduction to literature. Ed. Girolamo Beaty. NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996: 525-529.