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The surprising arrival of the man with wings leads
to many different ideas about his reasons for being there and who he actually is. Pelayo
and Elisenda for example, by ignoring the wings, conclude "quite intelligently" that he
was a castaway from a shipwreck. The neighbour woman they call to take a look at the man
says that he is an angel who is so old that the rain knocked him out of the sky. Father
Gonzaga, on the other hand, "proves" that the man cannot be an angel because he does not
understand Latin, and thus believes the man to be an "impostor" and not a real angel at
all.
In every case, the ignorance of the village folk is
shown as they try to interpret meaning in the appearance of this figure without having
any idea of what it might mean. Their interpretations reveal more about their own
ignorance than they do about the man himself.
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