... always together and Wolf was always faithful. Rip Van Winkle is a man of many traits. He always helped others while his home remained pretty well run down. In the short story "Rip Van Winkle", Washington Irving uses simple, henpecked, lazy and friendly to describe the main character Rip Van Winkle. The first thing that is used to describe Rip Van Winkle ... head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing"(36). He has been so badly verbally abused that he would not say anything for fear of more yelling. Then Irving also quotes "he is fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the h...

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... . Washington Irving was one of these writers, along with St. John de Crevecoeur. Washington wrote many pieces that include Sleepy Hollow, a tale of romance and horror, and Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man and how he changes over time. While Crevecoeur wrote Letters from an American farmer, a collection of letters describing the attributes of America. Both of these writes write for ... Van Winkle. Rip wasn't what anyone would call a poster man for the American Dream as he lazed about and played with kids all the time as evident in a few quotes from this story; "He inherited, however, b...

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