Bonghee Park

Professor Kim

English Short Fiction

7 June 2007

A Psychoanalytical Reading of

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" addresses the issue of domestic relations. According to the narrator, Rip is portrayed as "a simple, good-natured man" (192). John Simth in Irving and His Work argues that "he [Rip Van Winkle] does nothing but eating and sleeping" (190). Besides, the village where Rip lives is described as follows:

New York City was first called New Amsterdam because it was founded by the Dutch, the first Europeans to claim that part of North America. Before there were any other means of transportation, the great river that met the Atlantic Ocean at New Amsterdam was the only way into the huge wilderness that is now the state of New York. (190)

The above description shows that Rip's residence is not far away from the woods of the Catskill Mountains. *Note that a good signal statement often gives a quick summary of the quotation.

Works Cited

Agee, James. "Knoxville." Atwan 171-75.

Atwan, Robert, ed. The Best American Short Stories. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2003.

Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." American Short Stories: Exercises in Reading and Writing. Ed. Greg Costa. Boston: Thomson, 2002.

Kang, Gun. “Washington Irving and ‘Rip Van Winkle.’” 2007. Kyungnam University Division of English. 31 May 2007.<www.kyungnam.ac.kr/~ymkim>.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." Atwan 383-94.

Sanborn, Jean. “Obstacles and Opportunities: Sentence Combining in Advanced ESL.” Journal of Basic Writing 6.2 (1987): 60-71.

Smith, John. Washington Irving and the Origin of The Sketch Book. New York: Putnam, 2002.

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American Short Stories: Exercises in Reading and Writing

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