![]() However, there are some women who are basically good-natured and acceptable creatures. Washington Irving’s story makes some women out to be horrible creatures who are always torturing their husbands. The next few paragraphs are considering when this was written, and not my personal opinion… just cutting an excerpt from a paper I wrote years ago on this story, reflecting on how men treated women in fiction during that time period. ![]() YIKES! It’s a good thing this was written over two centuries ago… or Irving would be rightfully slaughtered in today’s world. Irving’s satire is a humorous attempt to display wives as barbaric slave-drivers who are better off being dead than being tyrannical women, who exist only to burden their husbands. He isn’t married to any of them but Dame. The other women in the village are tolerable to him only because Rip doesn’t have to listen to their hassling all day long. In Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle,” Rip’s wife Dame constantly nags her husband because all he ever does is sleep, put off his chores, and play with his dog Woof. 4 of 5 stars to Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. ![]()
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