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Most Handsome Drowned Man In The World, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Have you very imagined a dead man’s life, stepped into his shoes, and understood what he meant? The Most Handsome Drowned Man In The World written by Gabriel García Marquez is a short story about a man washing up on a beach and a village’s response to finding him. The villagers were interested in the man's unique appearance and imagined what his life must have been like. When imagining the man’s plight they become sympathetic which causes them to alter their village. Esteban is the soul of the village because of him the villagers developed a continence, village structure changed, and landscape changed.

The villagers continence morphs as the dead man’s character developed the plot progresses. The women “realized” the drowned man was Esteban
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