Ichabod Crane And Brom Van Brunt Analysis

Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt were both similar and dissimilar. They both were in love with Katrina Van Tassel, they were both loved or wanted by the townspeople, and they didn’t have affection for each other. That is where the similarities stop, however. Ichabod is lanky and skinny, he is intelligent, and he is somewhat lazy. Brom is stout and strong, he is smart in trickery and mischievous acts, and is always looking for something to do or an individual to prank. Their jobs were different too; Ichabod persisted Sleepy Hollow’s resident schoolmaster, and Brom didn’t have a job at all. Their social positions also contrasted. While the town tolerated Brom as the glen’s mischievous but loved troublemaker, they tolerated Ichabod for another reason. They wanted him because he helped them out. He assisted the farmers with their lighter work and tended the children for their mothers. Because the town required him to move each week from house to house, he told them all the recent gossip. He elated on the stories of witches and dragons, and especially told them about witchcraft. To put it in fewer words, Sleepy Hollow wanted Brom for
At that party he learned Katrina only welcomed his flirtations due to the fact that she wanted Brom to be jealous. Katrina actually loved Brom Van Brunt. After he became distraught, Ichabod left the party. He thought, as he passed by a bridge, that he perceived the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman is one of the characters in a story that he loved to talk about to the elderly biddies in the town. He tried to run; however the Horseman threw his head at him. In the morning the townsfolk found his hat lying by the water. A certain amount of persons speculated that the Headless Horseman carried him of, although most conjectured that Brom somehow frightened off the scarecrow-looking teacher, for by the water they found a pumpkin, one that could have served for the Headless Horseman’s