Symbolism in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"

Symbolism in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
In the story "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is easy to see that the corpse of the drowned man could have symbolized several things, but after reading about the author the corpse takes on a deeper meaning. In the short biography about the author it states "He became famous when he was almost forty after years of feeling "like an extra thinking "that he didn't count anywhere". Stephen the
corpse when alive might have felt like the author felt, and when he washed a shore he was than appreciated like t…