Story · United States · 1819
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Rip Van Winkle
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He slept through a revolution, and the joke lands on his wife.
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The review
This is Washington Irving's story, not the 1903 film. Rip sleeps in the mountains and wakes after the Revolution. His wife is dead. The king on the inn sign has changed. He slept through the public event of his lifetime. A house can read that much to a child in one sitting.
The domestic tyrant is a joke the story enjoys. The joke is at the wife's expense. Say so, or the charm will pull you in. She is dead when he wakes, and the tale is glad to be done with the woman it laughed at. A country changed on that inn sign without him. I would not let our kitchen laugh the way the story does.
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The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
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The eight
- 2Industry
He sleeps out the years; the work of a life does not get done.
- 3Household
His wife is the domestic joke the story enjoys, and then she is dead.
- 2Piety
No conscience wakes him; sleep is how he misses his own time.
- 1Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; he sleeps through the Revolution.
- 5Republic
The king on the inn sign changes while he sleeps through the public event.
- 3Temperance
The tale enjoys his escape and never asks him to want less of it.
- 4Truth
The changed inn sign is true; the joke on his wife is a cheap one.
- 3Stewardship
He wakes to a dead wife and a country that went on without him.
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