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Rip Van Winkle By Washington Irving 1201王亚娜 Historical Background Washington Irving (1783—1859) William Irving ,was a successful importer in New York City Irving attended Columbia College, and was eventually groomed(推介） as a lawyer The year 1818 as the bankruptcy of the family business ,Irving began to write in earnest to make a living . 1)By the early 1760s ,the 13 English colonies in North America had developed a similar American pattern in politics ,economy and cultural life and enjoyed the same frontier environment. 2)On July 4,1776,The declaration officially proclaimed the independence of 13 North American colonies. 3)The victory of the War of American Independence brought American people a new freedom. This hard-won freedom became a new anxiety gradually For it was very hard for the first generation of Americans to find their own identity as Americans immediately after the war. They were lost ,uncertain of what to do with the freedom In the country where few people could read and write . To find the national literary and make a living ,Irving drifted into the national glory and the literary father by luck. The Sketch Book《见闻札记》(1819—1820) was a huge literary success, including Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . In the beginning Every change of season ,every change of weather ,indeed, every hour of the day , produces some changes in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains. At the foot of these fair mountains ,the voyager may have described the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees.(环境） Rip Van winkles : The village of Rip was yet a province of Great Britain A kind neighbor An obedient hen-pecked husband Be good to the children of the village Has a dog named Wolf His wife ： Termagant（泼妇) Morning, noon , and night ,her tongue was increasingly going ,and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of mat