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"...the men with finally exploded with since when has there ever been such a fuss over a drifting corpse, a drowned nobody, a piece of cold Wednesday meat" (Marquez 332).

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"the men thought the fuss was only womanish frivolity"(Marquez 332).

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The women were so consumed with the dead man the men felt left out. They soon began to believe that the man the women created was real, and they should believe in his magic too.

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"...that he could have drawn fish out of the sea simply by calling their names" (Marquez 331).

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"...he would have been able to plant flowers on cliffs" (Marquez 331)

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"they noticed too that he bore his death with pride" (Marquez 330).

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Due to the large stature of Estaban, they consider him to be a god that has come to fix their village. They are so flattered over his presence, although not alive, that they are sure to rebuild the village to make it nice enough for him to come back whenever he wanted.

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"even though they were looking at him, there was no room for him in their imagination" (Marquez 330).

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"he has the face of someone called Esteban" (Marquez 331).

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"some women who had one to get flowers in the neighboring villages returned with other women who could not believe what they had been told..." (Marquez 332-333).

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"they let him go without an anchor so that he could come back if he wished and whenever he wished" (Marquez 333).

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The villagers created a whole life for the dead man not knowing anything about him originally (331)

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Estaban is not a physical presence in the village, but a presence in the minds of the villagers to come together to save their dying village. The villagers use the body of the dead man on the beach that the children found to allow Estaban to show them a more magical perspective of reality.

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"the more they sobbed the more they felt like weeping" (Marquez 331)

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The presence of Estaban not only unified their village, but unified them with neighboring villages as they too wanted to see the miraculously large man. Even the death of a man that none of them knew caused them to come together in grieving.

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"Sitting in the circle and gazing at the corpse between stitches" (Marquez 330).

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Before Esteban was found at the sea, the villagers were very isolated to themselves and did not want anything to do with people different than them. Then, the drowned man washed up on the shore and the villagers were amazed by his size and began to worship him. This brought the villagers together as one.