The story of The Handsome Drowned Man In the World I say was dictated as first reading to help us to do an in depth thinking on the parable of this story. To make us use our imagination to see how this story was devised and set in place and the plot of it.
This story with its three parts tests the imagination of the women on who, and how this stranger died, where he came from than also on his stature. The men just wanted him thrown back in the sea forever. The village was so dull till his body appeared be gray and gloomy. The women came up with a name for Estaban as the called him. After he was sent back to the sea the town started to rebuild their homes, plant flowers throughout the village.
