People are used to specific conditions or certain circumstances, in fact they often expect things related to the context they are used to. Gabriel Garcia Márquez suggests that people often feel uncomfortable when reality does not fit their expectations. The story goes like this: During a thunderstorm, an old winged man ends up stuck in the mud in Pelayo's backyard. Frightened by this mystical arrival, he decides that it is better to lock this "angel" in the henhouse. this intrigues many, especially Father Gonzaga, a priest, who is above all wary of this angel. However, as time passes, people begin to get used to his presence as he shows no supernatural power but patience. Luckily for him, this patience eventually pays off, his wings begin to grow feathers and he will soon be able to fly away. After all, Pelayo and Elisenda will free themselves of this burden. First, the characters' reactions to the angel's presence are directly influenced by their expectations. In this case, since the angel doesn't look like him, Pelayo is skeptical about trusting him and then locks him in the henhouse. “Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff's club…he pulled him out of the mud and locked him with the chickens in the henhouse” (Garcia Márquez 357). Pelayo behaves this way because he doesn't expect an angel to look so sickly and ugly at all. We can also rationalize his behavior by looking at what the outside world tells him and by outside world I mean his neighbor, the priest, etc. His neighbor tells him that this creature is an angel. Obviously he is surprised because his knowledge about angels does not correspond... to the middle of the paper...... counts as knowledge or truth for people, it is relative to their cultural and historical situations. From this definition we understand well why Father Gonzaga is surprised by the "angel". He was taught things in a very particular way that relates to his cultural context. The angel has no apparent characteristics that can be associated with it therefore it is critical of it. This shows how people feel uncomfortable when reality does not fit their expectations. In conclusion, the expectations of the characters in the story are governed by the setting or their knowledge which for that time period is not so good. Because of their ignorance and because the Church is extremely powerful, people's expectations are likely to be associated with what the Church says. For this reason people feel uncomfortable when reality does not match their expectations.