A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With
Enormous Wings"


Magic arises out of the two main characters of D.H. Lawrence's "The
Rocking-Horse Winner" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Paul, in the first story,
pulls out higher forces to help him decide who the winner of the next horse race
will be. In the Marquez story, a nameless and elderly angel lands on earth to
experience first hand the human behavior he strives to correct. The magic in
the air gives these stories a feeling of suspense. They are horrifying, if not
in the Stephen King horror genre. These tales encompass an undeniable amount of
magic, faith, greed, vindication and misunderstanding.
Pelayo and Elisenda, in the Garcia Marquez yarn, find the soul retriever
on his way to take their child to heaven, or so it is thought. The magical
angel's identity had to be discovered by a neighbor of the couple because they
didn't think that an angel could wind up on their land. Who would......

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