Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

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The author’s intent in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” is to show how something, in this case a dead man, can transform people’s lives simply by being. The people of the village have no idea who this man is, where he came from, or what he did in his life, but based on his appearance and size, begin to fantasize and create their own idea of who he was. From their idea of who he was, they change the entire village to make it something that represents the man. Once the villagers find the man, they begin cleaning him up, making him clothes, and preparing for his funeral. During this time the woman fantasize about how his life must have been being so large. We are not given the dead man’s name, but the women decide, based on his looks,