Marquez's “Old Man” and Kafka's “Metamorphosis”

Marquez's “Old Man” and Kafka's “Metamorphosis”

Introduction

Pelayo found the angel or “the old man impeded by his enormous wings”. The wings on his body indicated his supernatural entity while other characteristics were not in alignment with being an angel. Pelayo, the first one to find the old man with wings, was cautious of the angel as he watched him “armed with his bailiff's club”. Elisendra, the wife of Pelayo, was an intelligent decision maker as she suggests “charging five cents admission to see the angel”. The child of the couple was sick, later when “he got his ...