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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Handsomest Drowned Man
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, “The Handsomest drowned man in the world” is a short story scene on a seaside in a very low populated village. Before finding out that the unusual size man wasn't a whale while the kids of the village were horse playing around him from an unknown descent with very fond appearances named Esteban that was given to him by the woman villagers. While deciding on how they were going to send off Esteban the men of the village starts to become jealous of the dead man stealing their wives. Esteban is symbolic as a Creme-De la-Creme to show that everyone has something unique about them that will affect others for the better. The author shows an abundance, of elements of fiction throughout the story involving the men and

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