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While reading Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and noting all of the complaining about Dame Van Winkle, I decided to tap into last week’s lovely discussions about feminism and sexism. On that note, I would like to say that “Rip Van Winkle” could be seen as a story complaining about wives or even women in general, and how said women hinder men. ...
Let me elaborate on the view that you could take “Rip Van Winkle” to be a story laced with sexism. I think that it is obvious throughout the story that Rip does not think very highly of Dame Van Winkle, and avoids her at all costs. From the beginning of the story until Rip ventures out into the woods, there are paragraphs dedicated to describing how the henpecking Dame Van Winkle drove Rip from his home with all of her nagging. ... It makes it seem that if only Dame Van Winkle would not have bothered Rip so much, maybe he would have done more around the house instead of wandering off, getting drunk, and sleeping twenty years of his life away.
Approximate Word count = 858
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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