In the short story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the villagers are changed drastically by their experience with the drowned man as they begin to view him, their own lives, and their village differently. Before the drowned man arrives, the villagers are content with their village that “was made up of only twenty-odd wooden houses that had stone courtyards with no flowers,” (1). When they discover the drowned man, the only thing they notice is that “he weighed
growth and advancement of any society. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short fictional tale about a small village population that experiences social transformation as a result of discovering the handsomest drowned man who washes up to their village from the sea. The short story shows the power of imagination and how imaginations lead to perception that dictates our view of life either in a positive or negative manner. Marquez implements styles such as hyperboles and
In one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical realism work “The Handsomest Drowned In The World” the village in the story discovers a drowned man who washed up upon the shore and started to worship as if it was their idol. As the women had the motivation to clean up the drowned man who they later called “Esteban” they quickly start to fall in love with the fact that he was tall, strong, and handsome. The women starts to compare Esteban to their husbands and how they are worthless compared to them. The
The Power of Transformation In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World” we discover the effect of a random incident on the population of the entire village. One day, children notice a drowned body by the shore. As the villagers examine it, take care of it and finally dignify it during its funeral, they experience a deep transformation. As we follow the story, we observe the great income of that situation. The changes are not reversible and they never fade away. Marquez’s