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Essay Archive - A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
A Comparison of the Magic in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" and "A Very Old Man With
Enormous Wings"
Magic arises out of the two main characters of D.H. Lawrence's "The
Rocking-Horse Winner" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Paul, in the first story,
pulls out higher forces to help him decide who the winner of the next horse race
will be. In the Marquez story, a nameless and elderly angel lands on earth to
experience first hand the human behavior he strives to correct. The magic in
the air gives these st....
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