The story “Legend of Hollow Sleep”, written by Washington Irving in 1819, has been depicted as a horror for hundreds of years, and at first glance, such a character seems well-deserved; as it has all kinds of horror stories. In the play it is projection vs. of good and evil, in which figure she is projected to conquer evil. In the fight for young women, Katrina Van Tassel’s heart. In the story of Ichabod Crane, the protagonist tries to get around Katrina, showing off her best qualities, while Brom Van Brunt, his opponent, tries a bad trick prevent Ichabod by any chance he can.
Ichabod is a nobleman and a traveling schoolmaster who lives in a place called Tarry Town and teaches in the schools of the students. At the same time, Brom was simply known for being an unusual brute around town. At the end of the story, Brom ends up with Katrina’s heart. Then suddenly in the night Ichabod disappears. There were two possibilities for this. They chose the story in vīllulavīvīlīvīlī prīvīlī or vīllī prīncipēs or those in a> they are and led. two, Brom’s knights without a head, and Ichabod barely out of the town.
It has all the makings of a good horror story. If you take a closer look at Irving Washington and the time when he wrote this story, a different meaning appears. “The Legend of Sleepy Joel” refers to Irving Washington and others’ brief comings and goings through the change in the American market from paper, gold and silver to credit.
After the War of 1812, financial matters began to transfer from the gold and silver standard to the Unit. he believes (Blackson). Credit was becoming more popular and was more convenient for people to do than carrying around cash and paper. According to Robert Blackson, a member of the Society of Historians of the Ancient American Republic, many people used interest to buy things, and in some cases they bought everything. The problem was that banks were giving loans too often and to people who didn’t qualify (Blackson). This is the type of problem our economy is facing today which has made it one of its worst times ever.
Washington Irving, according to David Anthony, a writer for Early American, was one of many people captured. in the shift to faith. Irving was humiliated and nervous in this crisis (Antonius). “The Legend of Sleepy Coelen” represents the significant impact it had on Irving and his writing. There are many situations in the text that support this idea.
The main character of the plot is Ichabod Crane. Ichabod could be said to portray Washington or some other people consumed by the idea of faith. Ichabod is a school teacher who “lived in a week at a time, and so went round the neighborhood.” Sensation has no name of its own, nor does it really have anything behind it, like the man who makes faith. People who buy credit do not have the money behind them to repay them.
Another supporting theme is the struggle between Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt for the heart of Katrina Van Tassel. Katrina was the daughter of a rich estate and many men were after her heart. Ichabod noticed her and saw that she was offering him winning riches, so he decided to try and ask her out. “Ichabod then proceeded calmly and gently to suggest.” This is an example from the text of what Katrina was trying to do. He had to use gentleness when he showed nothing else. This means that the person buying has something on faith, when nothing physically presents itself, such as the charm and easy thought of faith.
Brom Van Brunt used different techniques to claim Katrina. Brom was a rough town, with all the muscle and showmanship anyone could possess. It means that the account of hard money is through the solid and you can see it and see what you get. He used this to his advantage to try to get Katrina to, as the book says, “duplicate the master teacher, and put him on the shelf of his school (Washington), that is to try and make him embarrassed, and make a fool of Ichabod. Much like money is, used physical appearance and known qualities to win Katrina’s heart.
The competition heated up and came down to one night when Van Tassel’s was having a house party and the two competitors were there. Ichabod enters the evening thinking that he has won her over and proceeds to choose him. He immediately met with Katrina and was delighted with the competition, but then, according to the report, “Something, however, I fear, must have gone wrong, since, after not leaving a great distance, he broke out. quite desolate and chaplain (Washington). Brom had read.
Throughout the story, Washington has made Ichabod seem like a priority in order to emphasize his kindness and humanity, and to show that he is trying to buy his love through faith. At the end of the fight Brom’s decision won. Denoting that money was going to beat hard faith, and that, even if he appealed to faith and saw that it seemed to be a better decision, hard money was the winner.
After the party house, where Ichabod realizes he is lost, the headless horseman that was mentioned earlier in the story arrives. Ghost Towns is a shadowy apparition that rides around the town’s cemetery at night and is talked about throughout the story. Ichabod was riding home from the party when they encountered the headless horsemen. The horsemen coming from behind catch up to Ichabod, “Now he saw the goblin rising up in his stable, and immediately turning his head on him, rushing headlong into the dust, and a black ball of horse. And the goblin rider passed like a whirlwind (Washington). The next day Ichabod somewhere he was discovered, and all but the horse and the hat had disappeared.
Immoral knights mark the fate of men who use praise too often. When Ichabod was already in a low place and knew that he had just lost his prize, the headless horsemen arrived and left no hope. As much as men meant that faith could not buy everything, nor always work; Ichabod imagined that he could not win everything to himself with his charms. Then the headless horsemen, so that the people were engaged in financial matters, would destroy whatever hope they had left.
“The Legend of Sleepy Joel” refers to Irving Washington and others’ brief comings and goings through the change in the American market from paper, gold and silver to credit. There is much evidence in the text and in Irving Washington’s past to support this analysis. Although “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” makes for great horror, it has a greater meaning to it, and summarizes the history of many Americans in a rough economic time.
Work Citation
Anthony, David “Distraction gone”: ‘sleepy hollow,’ the Gothic masculine, and the terror of 1819″. Early American Literature 40.1 (Wntr 2005): 111(34). Michigan State University Libraries. 28 April 2009
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Blackson, Robert M. “The Banks of Tarentum and the Panic of 1819: A Reinterpretation.” Autumn 1989. JStor. Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI. 28 April 2009
Lyons Dutch, Irving. Legend of the Hollow Dream New York: Athenaeum Books of Athens, 2007.
