The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving | Summary & Analysis
Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow explained in just a few minutes!
Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe provides an in-depth analysis of the plot, characters, symbols, and themes of Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Narrated by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a fictional historian, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set in the dreamy Hudson River Valley in the 1790s. The area is supposedly haunted by a ghostly Headless Horseman killed in the American Revolution.
Weaving social commentary with creepy mythology, Irving creates an evocative portrait of 19th-century New England. His scathing portrayal of the foolish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his place in local society is set against a grim local legend about the ghost of a headless horseman.
Crane, who is obsessed with gossip and ghost stories, is ultimate
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