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Washington Irving's Portrayal Of Dame Van Winkle
(T) In the story “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, the author's portrayal of Dame Van Winkle is unfair because she has the right to be raged at Rip, he never works at his house, and he helps the town but not his wife.(D1) Dame Van Winkle is always raged at Rip but one may think she has the right to be raged.(S1) Dame does a lot of work at her house and when she is the only doing work she can get raged.(S2) She does the outdoor and the indoor work and when she does one may think she has the right to be raged.(D2) Rip never wants to work at his own house which is very unfair for the wife, Dame Van Winkle. (S1) Rip likes to make up many excuses to Dame Van Winkle so he doesn’t have to do work at his house.(S2) Rip makes up the excuse that
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