Masculinity In The Handsomest Drowned Man

Masculinity can be physicality and emotionally is short stories too. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” the beginning shows how children find a dead man and imagine him as a ship or a whale, which we already assume that the dead man is someone the children haven’t seen someone so big in their village. The men carried the dead man to the nearest house, being physically masculine. After they bring the dead man in, they knew he was a stranger. None of the men were as a big as him since he didn’t even fit inside the houses, he was too big to fit anywhere, even in the beds. They had to expand the house and make a new bed so he could be comfortable. “The tallest men's holiday pants would not fit him, nor the fattest ones' Sunday shirts, nor the shoes of the one with the biggest feet.” He was so different from everyone else, he was too strong to actually be like them. Luckily for him the women knew how to do make things, not in a masculine way, but somehow when they could make certain clothes for him. The oldest lady in the village had looked at the drowned man “with more compassion then passion” she had felt bad for the man. She wanted the man to have a little piece of dignity, therefore giving the name of “Esteban.” The oldest didn’t have the strength emotionally to just not care about the drowned man. She felt pity because she …show more content…
After then the men “went to find out if anyone was missing in neighboring villages.” Back then the men and women had their own roles. The women had to be the ones who stayed in, they cleaned and made food. While the men were masculine, they did things on their own, to protect those in their villages instead of actually do stuff for them. They went out to

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