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The old man with the enormous wing was thought to be an angel in the story. An angel is a wing human-like creature sent from the heaven to do God’s will on earth. In the story, however, the wing man rarely does miracles. When he does miracle, it was not direct nor to be consider useful. “Besides, the few miracles attributed to the angel showed a certain mental disorder, like the blind man who didn’t recover his sight but grew three new teeth, or the paralytic who didn’t get to walk but almost won the lottery, and the leper whose sores sprouted sunflowers” (Marquez 454). The wing man does have the capability of doing miracles. However, these miracles are very unlikely to be God’s will. But if we take a look to the story as a whole, the wing man does bring good to the family in which he resides with. The wing man appearance has somehow lead to the child’s recovery from his sickness, and at the end the family is a lot better off after the appearance of this wing man. This wing man may not be an angel to most, even when he was considered as one. Nevertheless, this wing man appearance does save the family’s faith that he reside with. And even though he was not treated as one, he should be considered as an angel by this specific family. It is an ironic thing that people would travel across the country and pay to see this wing man they believed to be an “angel”, while the family this “angel” has saved from their misfortune treated him as a burden instead of a blessing.