Patience Doesn’t Have Limits “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting,” - Joyce Meyer

Patience is not an easy trait to have in life, especially when the majorities tend to be in a rush or expect things to be complete right then and there. However, there is hope for impatient people. Those who are impatient now, were not impatient before in their life. Thankfully, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, uses exquisite imagery, one main point of view, and creative mysticism to convey the significance of patience. In the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Marquez highlights that patience is key when trying to conquer different obstacles. There were many …show more content…
There is creative mysticism when Elisenda and Pelayo, “grew to think that he’d been duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house,” it was very magical because of how Elisenda would chase him out of one room and suddenly see him in the next room (Marquez 224). Elisenda, on the other hand, did not find this very amusing as she was slowly losing her patience. However, she was able to keep patient for the time being. Marquez portrays the significance of patient in the way of creative mysticism when describing the old man, “lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings,” (217). These statements portray mysticism because of how an old man tries to get his impeded enormous wings out of the mud. The one main point of how A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings conveys the significance of being patient through the way of creative mysticism was how, “His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience,” (Marquez 221). This sentence stood out to the readers the most because of how the old man was a supernatural figure having wings and how it stated that the only thing he wanted to do was be patient even though he was mistreated through this entire