In the short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", by Gabrial Marquez, two carnivals occur simultaneously. The carnivals take place in a small town, sicken with poverty on the shore of the ocean. In one of the carnivals, there was a very old man with enormous wings whom the townspeople believed was an angel. In the second carnival, there was a woman who, at a young age, disobeyed her parents and was turned into a spider. The two carnivals had little in common and had different effects on the townspeople. The carnival with the angel was ....