Supernatural Elements In The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes

During this semester while studying American Gothic Literature many new themes were introduced. I became most connected with and interested in the supernatural theme in the texts and found myself looking for it in outside books, movies, television and popular culture. The supernatural is characterized as events considered being of supernatural origins such as ghosts or some force beyond scientific understanding or laws of nature. The occurrence of the supernatural made each story more captivating and enjoyable. The supernatural theme was the most influential and prominent theme that we worked with during this course. While reading The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, I couldn't understand why it was included in the American Gothic Literature unit that I would be studying for the semester. But as I read the story a second time to understand it fully, I realized the story had major themes like betrayal, jealousy, and the supernatural. "Before the chest, on her knees, the young man saw with amazement
Ichabod is a schoolteacher who thinks all pranks are done by ghosts and goes from house to house telling the housewives these lies and eats their food. As a school, teacher one would think he would be more intelligent and not be the one to spread fear amongst the townspeople. The tendency to overlook the headless horseman as a principal character in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is credited to the accepted and predictable reading of the story in that the headless horseman is not real at all but is in fact Brom Bones in disguise, acting out a favorite local ghost story in order to scare out of town schoolmaster Ichabod, Brom's romantic rival for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. The story is left in the way that you can decipher what has happened which plays into the supernatural theme being