Irving, who served as a mentor for subsequent Romantic writers, created comical personages characterized by a strong sense of individualism. Hawthorne's characters, too, are often fiercely individual, but are treated in a much more serious fashion. Ichabod is consider the hero in the piece, sent to Salem village to solve the many murders, claimed to be committed by the towns “tall tale” town ghost story, of the headless horse man “Ichabod...rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.”(Baym, 2007. Pg. 60), unlike Young Goodman Brown, who’s journey wasn’t in a sense of heroism but was a sense of self defiance, brown knew what he was getting into and went against his better judgment and “faith” left his purpose for
Irving, who served as a mentor for subsequent Romantic writers, created comical personages characterized by a strong sense of individualism. Hawthorne's characters, too, are often fiercely individual, but are treated in a much more serious fashion. Ichabod is consider the hero in the piece, sent to Salem village to solve the many murders, claimed to be committed by the towns “tall tale” town ghost story, of the headless horse man “Ichabod...rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a scepter, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.”(Baym, 2007. Pg. 60), unlike Young Goodman Brown, who’s journey wasn’t in a sense of heroism but was a sense of self defiance, brown knew what he was getting into and went against his better judgment and “faith” left his purpose for