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Content: The more remote a story is from

the original source, the less reliable it is. This story is similar to

the stories of the hook and the kidney. He makes his story remote from

something we can rely on. Rip Van Winkle is the American icon of someone lazy, shiftless, and low

class. Americans sometimes don't love the lower class but have negative

portrayals of them, especially during the last couple of decades. This story is sympathetic to the lower class. Irving creates a loveable

scoundrel - Huck Finn is a similar hero. Rip is a good ole' boy who

doesn't like to do much work. Or any at all. He responds to his nagging

wife by running away, and she responds to this by nagging more.