A Very Old Many With Enormous Wings

I just read "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a very intriguing short story about a vivid imagination of an angel... but it is unclear what it is exactly. At the end of the story, I still couldn't figure out exactly what had happened, but I enjoyed it. At the beginning they said a man was an angel, he had come to take a sick child. The people enjoyed the company of the angel and appreciated his "supernatural virtue" 3 Questions I would as the author- 1. Why did the angel have that affect on the people and how did you get the idea/inspiration of the angel? 2. Why did the people think that the angel came for the sick child? Was it an answered prayer? 3. Why did the "angel" stay around for the child's life?