How would you feel if you saw a dead man float out of the sea? Would you be scared maybe even terrified? Well some people from the story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, would literally start playing with them! Though the people were not adults, only young children looking for a new, unfamiliar face. The village they lived in only consisted of 20 houses, not many new faces come around, until the day he washed up. When some of the men finally saw the man on the beach they rushed over to carry him to a house, but when they tried to carry him they realized he was much heavier than anyone they knew. When the men got to a house to lay the man down they realized how long he was, he could not fit on the beds! Since the men could not recognize the man they decided to go to neighboring villages while the woman stayed and cleaned the man up for a peaceful death. Though when they started cleaning all the scales and mud off of this man they realized something, they realized that this man was the most handsome man they have ever seen. The woman started to make clothes for the man because he was too large for any clothes in the village. Though when they did the clothed were still too tight for him. The woman then started thinking how hard it was when he was alive to be so large if it was such a hassle when he is dead. They thought of how hard it was for him when he was visiting people, he would always have to stand up because of embarrassment of breaking the chair. When the woman took a good look at him and finally realized he was dead they started weeping because to them he had become Esteban.
The time finally came that they had to throw the body off of the cliff because there was no grave yard in the village. The woman could not make the time to throw the body off go away, so they stalled for as long as they could. Finally, one of the women took the handkerchief off of his face and the men were left breathless. If the man would have known how much trouble he was causing he would have drowned in a more deserted place. The men started to feel no hatred and gave the drowned man the best funeral there has been in the village. Women started gathering flowers for the drowned man. They gave the drowned man a peaceful going away to the heavens.
