Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle shows the four types of romantic character in his story by doing many things. Rip Van Winkle goes out to the mountains to get away from his bantering wife. This is where takes his journey from the city to the world of nature. While in the woods a man started calling out Rip’s name. This man took him to a place where many people were drinking and bowling. As he approached, “whenever they rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder.” Rip van Winkle values intuition and imagination over reason when he helps others instead of his own family. It was even noted that “he would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian corn or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs at their less obliging husbands would not do for them.” Rip Van winkle loves nature and the outdoors. He likes to fish and hunt, especially squirrel. . He would rather do this all day than he would look for work. He would feel a nibble and wouldn’t leave on the chance he could catch something. This upset his wife a lot. In the end Rip returns home and discovers that the home he left isn’t what he thought. The town had grown. When he comes back he searches for past people. On his journey to find them he makes a comment to one of the new towns people. The comment was to bless the King. That person and others accused him of being “a spy.” Because he didn’t understand what the towns people were saying he finds problems and this is when he shows distrust for civilization and laws of society. In the end he continues to tell his story. Some believe him and others don’t. Most think he is “out of his