A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

why does narrator stress such details on hisdirty n half plucked wings and his glossry physical animalistic trair

animalistic traits

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I think that Marquez wants to juxtapose our stereotype of an angel with what an angel, in this case, actually is. People may think an angel as a clean white cherub-like figure. In this story, the angel looks quite the opposite inviting people's scorn instead of reverence.