In the course of life, humanity discovers many things beyond its understanding and will be interpreted and put in its place as humans do everything. Humanity has sought to adapt the universe to the constraints of human logic and it is inevitable that there will be misunderstandings in this process. Gabriel García Márquez felt that this happened too often to his work and wrote A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings in an attempt to show literary critics the folly of an overzealous pursuit of taxonomic perfection. In A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Gabriel García Márquez defies literary interpretation by parodying the interpretations that literary critics impose on his work by writing in an absent plot and superficial characters, instead using symbolism to allude to the parodist theme that he hears. The first tool Márquez uses against interpretation is plot – by writing in a plot intentionally devoid of any element that makes it rich or deep, he essentially creates an absent plot, which by its very nature foils attempts to interpret it. Although events occur in the story, these events do not involve any conflict between the characters, the characters' bodies, or the natural world. When Pelayo or Elisenda force the Angel to live in their henhouse, he neither resists nor responds to any of his visitors. “The angel was the only one who did not take part in his own act” (Márquez 272). Despite tourists' fascination with him, he only focuses on feeling comfortable in his surroundings. However, as the story progresses, the arrival of the angel (or anything else, for that matter) does not bring any tension to the story, except to disturb Father Gonzaga . On the contrary, things are gradually getting better for everyone: Pe...... middle of paper ......om, Harold and John Gerlach. Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. New York, NC: Infobase Publishing, 1999. Web. .Goodwin, John. “A VERY OLD MAN WITH HUGE WINGS by Márquez and THE LESSON by Bambara.” Explainer. 64.2 (2006): 128-130. Internet. November 5, 2011. .Márquez, Gabriel García. “A very old man with enormous wings.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Booth, Alison and Kelly J. Mays. London: WW Norton & Company Inc., 2011. 269-274. Print.Slomski, Geneviève. Masterplots II: Short story series, revised edition. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Web. .