man with wings
..., Elisenda, first notice the man's wings, their first reaction is to immediately conclude that the man must be an angel. Therefore, the neighbor woman suggests clubbing the man to death. This is a prime example of the "typical" reaction of society to abnormal things: dispose of them. Although Pelayo and Elisenda do not have the heart to kill the man, Pelayo decides to lock the man up in the chicken coop. Once word gets out of this so-called "angel," people from all over begin to flock to the chicken coop to gawk at the "angel." Once again Pelayo and Elisenda abuse the man. They charge people money to look at him, and in turn make a profit off of a human being just because he is different. Pelayo and his wife are not the only people who abuse the old man. The people who come to look at him also abuse him. The very first day the old man is found, Pelayo and Elisenda find the neighbors "tossing him things to eat through the wire as if he weren't a supernatural creature but a circus animal" (Marquez 441). "[T]he cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing" (Ma...