RIP VAN WINKLE

Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle

Introduction

Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving, is a symbol of the European sense of a new society in America, and establishes the identity of before and after the American Revolution. Rip Van Winkle's character portrays American society as seen in England while England was portrayed his wife, Dame Van Winkle. Citizens are the American public in general, and how it has changed with the implementation to become an independent country. Rip Van Winkle is "a kind neighbor and an obedient hen-pecked husband." All the good wife of the village loved him because he was ready to help at any time. (Pearce 2003)

Do you trust the way he describes events that occurred?

It is irrevocable can not be taken back. For example, if the heroine Sarah drinks a whole bottle of wine and sits down and writes a note to her boss, John Smith to tell him that she fell in love with him, there is only one if it really is under the influence of alcohol long enough to mail it. It ceases to be, if it rips up the note, or if it considers it is not so, and he returns to it, it must change the story. But if it goes astray in the mail and gets sent to another John Smith, and he has amnesia, and requires that the letter-writer knows it, and tracks her down, she can provide evidence of his lost past, well, that such an event. This is an active character, and makes it more important to the history, the causes of things happened. (Plung 2006)

The main characteristic of a reliable narrator is its proximity to the implied author's values. In the fictional truth in the narration usually associated with readers via a reliable narrator, so that the teller must demonstrate ...