In the story of http://salvoblue.homestead.com/wings.html
A very old man with wings, a quote on quote angel fell face down into a village. The first things that comes to your mind about the man with wings is that he an angel. The perception of an angel is a pure,clean,beautiful godly being that is dressed in all white and has lush white wings. The man in this story didn't fit the description of an angel at all. Also the people in this village treated the man very poorly. They treated this man as if he was a filthy creature instead of a mystical being.
The angel is supposed to be a beautiful, stunning creature. The man in this story definitely wasn't a beautiful creature. " the backsides of his wings were strung with parasites" An angel are supposed to be absolutely gorgeous but clearly werent gorgeous or pretty. This made me think maybe this man was a fallen angel like Lucifer. "Nothing about him measured up to the proud dignity of angels" So even in the narrators eye this man was inferior to the perception of an angel. He had no angel-like qualities except his wings and those didn't even measure up to those of an angel. I asked myself was this man an Angel or a Freak With Wings.
The society of this village treated this man like a leper like he had a disease. They had no respect for this man. "Even the most merciful only threw stones at him" Think if the most merciful threw stones at him what did the cruelest or most vicious do to him. I would hate to have been the man with wings at this point. "cripples pulled put his feathers" People were pulling out his feathers because they believe that his feathers could heal their ailments. Which was really idiotic to believe that these feathers could heal them.
In conclusion the man with wings had a lot of patience maybe he was an angel that God kicked out of heaven because he had done wrong. He may not have looked like an angel l but he had the patience of one.
