sam's notes on sleepy hollow?

Question

The legend of sleepy hollow

Theme: “the love of money leads to disappointment”

Ichabod Crane is a school teacher who wants to marry a girl but all he really wants from her is money.

Washington Irving chose to name this story “The legend of sleepy hollow” because the town is a sleepy little town.

Repetitions: Jealousy (Brom Bones is jealous of Ichabod Crane and his love affair with Katherine Van Tassel.)Food is also repeated many times in this story.

The names of the characters define them. For example, Ichabod Crane was named after the Crane bird because of his slender physic.

Crane was very skinny and according to the story looked poor. He was very different from everybody else; he was odd. He was always hungry. Crane was also a greedy man…

Answer 1

The name came more from the glen/hollow in which the town resides Even were there now town within the glen/hollow, it would still be a sleepy little place as it was so quite and peaceful as to induce one to become drowsy.

Ichabod wanted Katrina for her money, or rather the money she would inheiret from her father as his only child, but he also wanted more from her. He wanted a life of ease. He is described as helping out those he stays with by doing some of the more lighter, less labor intensive jobs of farm labor. Where as another school teacher might have helped tear stumps out of the ground, plow the fields, gather the harvest, and what not where they had the time, Ichabod would rather do things that did not put much of a strain on him. He would probably have not done these either if he were not trying to to be too much of a burden on those he was staying with.

Greed and gluttony were just two of his characteristics. He was also highly superstitious and vain. He was always reading about witches and witchcraft, and he believed heavily in ghosts and demons. When he would walk to the place he was residing after sundown, he'd have to whistle nervously to keep the spooks away. And he was extremely proud of his singing and dancing. He clearly believed himself superior to the locals of the hollow in these.