Washington Irving’s short story, Rip Van Winkle, illustrates the changes that occurred in Rip Van Winkles life after a whole twenty-years of sleep. Rip Van Winkle is lazy man his who liked to help other out but didn’t help to much at home. Rip lives with his wife's constant nagging wife, Dame Winkle as well as his loyal dog names Wolf. Irving was one of the first to introduce the qualities of mythological writings including stories that are set in the past, exaggerated characters, and stories that convey a positive message often about a nation or its people. One of the many talents Washington Irving had in writing was his ability to describe magical settings. Rip describes what he saw in the morning as he had woken up as, “—…a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the brush, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze.” (70) It characterizes the blooming scenery of life around his home as well as how simple life was in America back in the eighteenth century. Irving's writing sounds like Disney before Disney was even as thought. …show more content…
“Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rock, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it” (68). This expert from the story creates a mysterious awareness, exaggeration, as well as adding an unfamiliar, strange character to the text can make the reader more drawn to that certain part of the