The Old Man With Wings

            Gabriel Garcia Marquez has shocked the world with his stories. Whether it is the story of "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", or the story of "The Old Man with Wings," Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a great yet mysterious writer. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote these two amazing short stories, about a similar topic, but with his great skills, he managed to make them different, in a very unique way. The essays three main differences for each story will be in the upcoming paragraphs. .
             One of the clearest examples of difference is in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World." In the story it takes about a strange man coming from the ocean, and he is dead. The villagers thought he was an enemy ship, and then they realized it had no mast or flag, so they changed their opinion to the "thing" being a whale. But when they got up close they discovered that a man had been washed up on shore.
             "But when it washed up on the beach they removed clumps of seaweed and jellyfish tentacles, and the remains offish and flotsam, and only then did they see that it was a handsome drowned man." This, meaning that he would never have a chance of living again, while in "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" the man did have a chance of living. He had wings to carry him and the drowned man did not. In some respects this is the only part in the story where the old man is better off than the drowned man. But a similarity is that the villagers didn't know what the two men were until they got an up close look at them. "He had to get close to see it was an old man, a very old man, laying face down in the mud, who in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn't get up, impeded by his enormous wings.".
             The second example is that the drowned man was treated well. The town's people loved his natural beauty. They were fascinated by his size, and how enormous he was. The children spent all day burying him in sand and playing with him.