Nicholas Martinez week 2 discussion

I believe the professor decided to have the “Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” as the first story as it makes you think about how people tend to view someone so much based off appearances. In the story it talks about how the woman though of the man as beautiful and strong how he would have the happiest wife, the biggest house, and that the fish would rise out of the sea at his beck and call. It made me think how could someone come to such conclusions based solely off how one may look they were unable to have a single conversation with the drowned man but somehow they were able to imagine so many aspects of how his life could have been in the village. I’d like to think as the reader if pushed into a similar situation as in the story that I would not think much of what kind of life the man lived but rather how he died and how he would be if he was alive to engage in a conversation rather than assume based off his physical attributes that he was this amazing man who could do everything perfectly.