Title: Dame Van Winkle Character Analysis in Rip Van Winkle | LitCharts
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Rip Van Winkle’s wife is a sharp-tongued and nagging woman whose only role in the story is to antagonize and hound her lazy husband, who avoids all domestic duties. Though Dame Van Winkle’s unceasing harassment of her husband is mentioned frequently, she has no dialogue in the story and remains a kind of comical background force. She dies while Rip is asleep on the mountain, from “breaking a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England Peddler.” Dame Van Winkle Quotes in Rip Van Winkle
The Rip Van Winkle quotes below are all either spoken by Dame Van Winkle or refer to Dame 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: ).