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Why The Handsomest Drowned Man
The Handsomest Drowned Man by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is very peculiar short story of a striking dead man who washes up on an isolated island. All the women fantasy over this mysterious man, they imagine a life with him and his family. Throughout the short story characteristics have been applied to the island women that are both similar and different went compared to myself. Most of the tale expresses how comfortable the people are with death. They would lay his dead body upon their tables and just keep the corpse in their houses for days and days. This is completely different compared to mine and my family's grief over loved ones passing. When the news strikes my family about a death there is usually sadness, grief, and anger. Unlike the this
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