In the story The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Peylo enters his courtyard and finds a "very old man with enormous wings laying face down in the mud, who in spite his efforts, couldn't get up impede his enormous wings". In this instance the author asks a lot of his readers to actually step into his fantasy world.
To actually understand his story. In today's society we would not know how to act if we were to find an angel in our courtyard, or even if we were to witness a miracle.
The character in this story stares in disbelief at the man, who coincidentally, is actually an angel. The fact being that if he was actually an Angle, or if the people wanted him to be an angel, they would treat him with the up most respect. But maybe they don't want him to be an Angel, or believe that he is, because they wouldn't know how to treat him. They treat this angle like a human prisoner.
In today's society no one would know how to actually act if an angel, or even a miracle appeared in front of you. How does that make us look? We are people who would rather watch a pathetic T.V. show than welcome an angel into our home. In the story there is a spider woman that comes to town, all of the townspeople go to see this "freak attraction". The spider woman symbolizes the actual fact of how we are. Everyone, including myself, focuses on what people have to offer. No one cares how we may make them feel. What we care about is what they can physically give us. The angel could actually give them SO much but the people don't treat him well enough for him to want or feel the need to give them anything. In fact, isn't the golden rule "treat others the way you want to be treated"?
