Ichabod Crane Essay

The Untold of Ichabod Crane In the short story called sleepy hollow, there is a main character that have many different characteristics to how the the story is put in place and the actions as well. Ichabod crane was characterized in many different forms, but in the physical form he is very tall and a thin type of man. Irving tells us that his hands are “gangly” and his feet are very “shovel-sized.” “To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.” (1.8) Another main character in the book is Brom Bones, He is seen as the headless horseman. In the short story of Sleepy Hollow, the protagonist Ichabod Crane, and the antagonist Brom Bones, are both in a competition on seeing who can capture Katrina Van Tassels love at the end. Little did the readers expect, Ichabod crane does not win over Katrina Van Tassles love in the end of the short story. Ichabod crane has one exciting imagination throughout the short story, but the readers did not
You would think that a guy that loved scary movies wouldn’t be scared of the dark but little did we know he is scared of absolutely everything. In Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Ichabod Crane attends an autumnal harvest feast, where he listens to local townspeople recounting ghost stories. Later that night, on his fateful ride home, he encounters the Headless Horseman. The ending of the story is left open to interpretation: Is the Headless Horseman a ghoulish spirit, or is it actually Crane's rival in love, dressed in disguise and further exaggerated by Crane's haunted, overactive imagination” (A Ghostly Imagination). This article shows tha Ichabod crane had imaginative dreams that were filled with scary and dark