Irvings Feminist Approach
Taylor Bryant
English 11 HH
September 26, 2006
Irving's Feminist Approach in Literature
Washington Irving, a Romanticist short story writer was best known for his high
comedy, and irony. Irving used various symbols to portray hidden meanings, that every page of
a story should be relevant to what he is trying to convey overall. Irving believed that a short
story was a "frame on which to stretch materials." Meaning that he was more concerned with
literary devices rather than the story as a whole. In the two stories Rip Van Winkle, and The
Spectre Bridegroom, Irving gives the readers a view of how women were portrayed during the
late 1700'and early 1800's. He gives women an idea of how women should act, as well as how
they shouldn't. He uses various hidden symbols to portray women negatively and positively, in
both stories. He categorizes women the way that they were "supposed" to act during his time.
In Rip Van Winkle the one......
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