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The protagonist of the story, Rip Van Winkle is a genial, passive man living in a small Dutch province in the Catskills, who spends his time engaging in work that is not useful or profitable, such as hunting squirrels and doing odd jobs in houses and gardens that aren’t his own. He is the “henpecked husband” of his constantly nagging wife, Dame Van Winkle, from whom he is often hiding, and who is the cause of most of Rip’s unhappiness. Rip ventures up to the top of a mountain one day while squirrel hunting and encounters strange beings who bewitch him with liquor such that he sleeps for 20 years, missing the American Revolution and the dramatic transformation of both his town and the country around it. Rip Van Winkle Quotes in Rip Van Winkle
The Rip Van Winkle quotes below are all either spoken by Rip Van Winkle or refer to Rip Van Winkle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).