In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," Gabriel Garcia Marquez utilizes symbols to convey a message about human nature. Throughout his work, symbols serve to suggest the severity of human shallowness and artificiality. In addition, they show the extent of the human capacity to strategically use cruelty as a tool to obtain personal satisfaction. Marquez uses the symbol of a very old man with enormous wings in a setting where the people question, abuse, and treat him expendably for personal gain to symbolize the tendency of individuals to abandon compassion and act cruelly in order to potentially extract miracles or money from a situation.
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