"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

This story was really confusing I could only make some sense on it based on some of the reactions and comments made by the characters in the story. All in all it was pretty interesting especially when the old man they found in their courtyard end up being an angel, that part really caught me off guard I had to reread that section like three times because I thought that was some type of typo or misread on my behalf. I really could make just a little sense of the story. Based on what the old little woman said. She made comments about this angel was trying to take the sick baby, so it seems as though that the angel was an angel of death summoned because of the baby. The angel was on its way to take the baby away but got caught in the storm because the angel was old and wings could not fight against the high winds. Honestly putting myself in this story if I seen some guy in my backyard with wings on the ground I mean after I woke up from fainting, I probably would have called police or screamed in fear. It was real hard to draw a meaning from a story like this because I couldn’t really see the whole meaning and purpose of it being written, it did kind of remind me of the good Samaritan story found in the bible but even then some lines through my head in a whirlwind in trying to figure out a theme to the story. At first the couple seems as though that they want to care for the angel, but then you read lines like “She felt a sense of relief when the angel flew away because the he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea”. So reading that shows that instead of wanting to care for the angel like the Samaritan story they were just tolerating the angel unit it was able to leave.