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Situational Irony
Key Examples in A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Style
Explanation and Analysis:
Marquez’s writing style in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is full of rich descriptions and figurative language. The following passage—which comes near the end of the story as the angel heals from his mysterious affliction—captures these elements of Marquez’s style:
He remained motionless for several days in the farthest corner of the courtyard, where no one would see him, and at the beginning of December some large, stiff feathers began to grow on his wings, the feathers of a scarecrow, which looked more like another misfortune of decrepitude. But he must have known the reason for those changes, for he was quite careful that no one should notice them, that no one should hear the sea chanteys that he sometimes sang under the stars.
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