Lessons In Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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Lessons Upon Lessons Everyone has to pay a price for their actions. In Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” readers are taught what the consequence are when a person is greedy for wealth and a foolish person who believes in the supernatural by giving us the story of what happens to Ichabod Crane when he has these qualities and what becomes of him for the cause of them in order to show readers what lesson was provided. We begin the story learning about Ichabod Crane, a poor school teacher who often admired the wealth of other farmers and desired them for his own. In particular one farmer he admired most was Heer Van Tassel. With admiring Heer Van Tassel he falls “in love” with Katrina Van Tassel the farmers only daughter set to inherit all his wealth (Irving 48). Cranes love for Katrina is based off of what she will be able to give him, all the money and food he could imagine. This is an important because it factors into how greedy Ichabod Crane really is. His love for the wealth has blinded him to the dangers of trying to court someone who is already …show more content…
For believing something that didn't exist and being frightened by it Crane was given his punishment for being a man of false love and foolish of the supernatural. In end readers are left to decide what has happened to Ichabod Crane, knowing the type of writer Washington Irving is it can be interpreted that the Headless Horseman was used to set the rule of what are the consequences. In conclusion, the audience learns the lesson of what happens when you are a foolish person who only loves for wealth rather than genuine feelings. Washington Irving makes it an important key to inform the readers of the kind of man Ichabod Crane was to show the reason for his death or “disappearance.” Using Brom Van Brunt as the judge in this story by giving hints that he was the Headless Horseman that essentially gives the consequence for Ichabods
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