6/21/2023 0 Comments The legend of sleepy hollow 1820![]() ![]() Irving also intended the story to function much in the way of his other short stories and essays: as a means of identity-forming and community-shaping in the early years of American independence. Irving intended for audiences to read the story as a comedy, and in the postscript, a constructed audience at a “Corporation meeting” receive the story with “much laughter and approbation” (Irving, 28-29). Crain, a believer in the supernatural, finds that Katrina has rejected him, and, on his way home, encounters the legendary “the headless horseman,” which runs him out of town. Irving’s initial story charts the experiences of Ichabod Crain, a Connecticut-trained teacher, who takes the post of schoolmaster in Tarry Town and attempts to woo the illustrious Katrina Van Tassel. ![]() When Washington Irving penned “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in 1820 as part of the collection of short stories in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., he never would have imagined the grip “Sleepy Hollow” would hold over the American imagination or the way his initial story would be transformed. ![]()
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