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, like hunting squirrels and doing odd jobs in houses and gardens for other people and leaving his own. He is the “henpecked husband” to wife, Dame Van Winkle, who constantly complains to him about his uselessness and Rip often finds himself hiding from her. Furthermore, Rip can be identified as a lazy American man, who one day wanders off with his dog Wolf into the Catskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and he fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains and did not wake up for decades missing the American Revolution and the dramatic transformation of both his town