Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story called A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is written in the magical realism genre, which is qualified by adding fantasy elements to a setting similar to the modern world. In this case, magical realism means that the author put a supernatural creature into a setting resembling the real world to guess what would have happened if such an event took place in real life. What makes the genre work is that it emphasizes the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of fictional characters. The inconsistencies have no logical explanation when applied to real life but somehow work in fairy tales and fables.
Magical realism is primarily related to the tales, stories, and art from Latin America that focus on the more realistic and chaotic side of fiction rather than on a structured western approach based on aesthetic purposes. frequently pictured as being stark white, meaning the angel’s purity, are “dirty and half-plucked,” making the characters question their beliefs and images imposed by western art. Gothicism is based on the Romanticism movement in literature that implies fear and mystery of the story from supernatural objects. Magical realism, on the other hand, focuses on dispelling the mystery with realism.