Marquez combines binaries of Magic Realism to criticize the oddity in the culture and religion structures of the society. The binary used throughout the entire story is dream and reality. Pelayo, a man in a fishing village found an old man with wings who fell from heaven with the rain. Pelayo and his wife believed that the old man was an angel. The news of the arrival of this angel brought the attention of lots of people who would do anything in order to see him.
Everybody believes that he was an angel except from the priest. Anyhow nobody pay much attention to the priest opinion and keep asking this angel for miracles. Suddently in the plot a woman who had turned into a spider for having disobeyed her parents appeared. This along with certain demands (miracles) that the angel did not met, made the attention to shift from the angel to the spiderwoman.
There can be a few reasons why Marquez would write this Magic Realistic novel. First, it shows the superficiality of some people, in this case the priest who believed that the man was not an angel because of his appereance.
Secondly the concept of faith, people truly believe that the man is an angel, and come from all over the town to seek miracles from him.
Third it can also be a way of showing how desperate lower class people are in order to improve their conditions. This is shown by the way the owners of the house start charging every person to see the angel. They seize the opportunity they had to get rich.
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