The pilgrims are attracted to another spectacle of the woman who was changed to a spider. Realizing that they couldn’t be healed the pilgrims forget all about the winged man except Palayo and his wife who continue to live with the creature. However, no miracle happened and hence no person was healed and instead some of them got even whose. The writer tells of the Portuguese who couldn’t sleep, of the sleepwalker, the woman who had been counting his heartbeat since childhood and many other people with different ailments. This attracts pilgrims from all over who are expecting to receive miracles. Believing the language of the old man to be Latin the people of Macombo have the feeling that the Creature might be an angel. The story can also be placed in a religious context. One can interpret the unbearable smell as the misbehaviors committed by the outsiders i.e. The writer has portrayed himself as an outsider (winged man) and his two hosts as the main political parties in Colombia. In this context we can understand that the story is reflective of the political climate of Colombia where it is dominated by two parties, this story is attributed to the writer who is of a mixed race and descended from pirates and smugglers, he has presented himself as the winged creature and thus seemingly making a political statement.
In the story it is discovered that the creature does not understand the language spoken by the locals although it was suspected to be Latin, this gives a political dimension to it and as highlighted by Father Gonzales who became suspicious of the creature when he discovered that the creature did not understand the heavenly language.
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