Jan 6, 2010

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World | Style

The arrival of a large drowned man on their shores inspires the imagination of the inhabitants of a tiny fishing village.

Point of View
The simplicity with which "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is told conceals a rather complex narrative technique. The villagers, finding a drowned man on their beach, begin to admire and then love him as they prepare him for proper burial. The third-person narrator, however, only describes the man through the eyes of the villagers. It is their conceptualization of the drowned man, not any objective viewpoint, that the reader...