The story "The Hansomest Drowned Man in the World" is about a hansome man that drowned. He washes up on the shore and the villagers that live there notice that he "weighed more than any dead man they had ever known." The women clean him and fantasize about what he was like when he was alive. When they are going to throw him back in the ocean anyone that has seen him does not want him to go because they are charmed by his looks
Everyone thinks looks are everything. A dead guy washes onto the shore and they think he is so great because he is hansome. He could have been a murderer, and they would not know. They thought he could "make flowers grow amoung the cliffs" just because they thought he was beautiful. He drowned, he couldn't have been perfect.
People need to stop judging others by their looks and get to know them. They brought nice trinkets out to the dead guy because they thought he was beatiful. All that stuff was wasted. They imagined him bringing "calling fish from the sea by their names", even though that is impossible. Then they decide they can do these things that he probably couldn't do. They tried to make "springs burst forth from amoung the rocks" though they probably never succeded. Because they judged him by his looks they worked harder for no reason.
