Title: A Summary and Analysis of Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’ – Interesting Literature
Headings: A Summary and Analysis of Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’
A Summary and Analysis of Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’
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Content: the next generation is much the same as the last. The humour of the story – chiefly in Rip Van Winkle being a henpecked husband – also supports this analysis of the story. If Dame Van Winkle is like Old Mother England, lording it over Rip (representing the American colonies), then her death is a blessed release for Rip, but nothing more momentous than that. He is relieved rather than anything more dramatic. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. Image: via Wikimedia Commons. Like this: