Questions:
Analyzing "Rip Van Winkle"
Rip Van Winkle
A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker
Please provide assistance with the following questions to create a literary analysis.
1. What sort of man is Rip? What are his strengths? His weaknesses?
2. What might be the "moral" of this American tall tale? What sort of comments regarding American life and the American work ethic might Irving have been making with this story?