How is the overall setting in "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" important to the rest of the story?

The short
story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a work of
magic . It tells of a filthy old man with a pair of huge but damaged wings, who appears suddenly
in a seaside village in the aftermath of a storm. Although a neighbor claims he is an angel, the
family that finds him locks the old man in a chicken coop. The entire village treats him like a
circus animal. The priest decides the stranger is not an angel when he cannot understand Latin,
which the priest claims is God's language. Later, a carnival arrives featuring a creature with
the face of a woman but the body of a spider, and this draws attention away from the old man
with wings. Eventually the old man's wings heal, and he flies away.

The
setting of this story is crucial. First of all, the village is by the seaside, so that the old
man can be mysteriously swept in from the immense vastness of the sea by a storm. Additionally,
the village in which he lands is poor, ignorant, and...