What elements of irony and humor does the story contain? What is their purpose?

By intricately using the style of writing he is most famous for, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is able to incorporate two seemingly different elements into his short story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Through situational irony an angel falls into the yard of Pelayo and his wife Elisenda. The irony comes in a couple of forms, some noteworthy are: the couple did not have the heart to execute the angel how it was typically done yet they were indifferent about treating him like a circus act they did not have the heart to club him to death (307). Also the sigh of relief that Elisenda is able to breath towards the very end when the angle leaves and she has no realization all that he has done, Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for himhe was no longer an annoyance in her life (311).The humor in the story is distributed throughout in such manners as the angel being treated any less than what he is by being cooped up in a chicken pen and treated as a spectacle, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if weren't a supernatural creature but a circus animal (308) and the changeability of human beings after newness have waned off, A spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals(310).