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Do you think Rip Van Winkle was dreaming or it was reality?

 

maria p #200701
Sep 17, 2011 3:54 PM

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Do you think Rip Van Winkle was dreaming or it was reality?

if you believe.

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Aslan
Sep 17, 2011 4:45 PM

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In this story we are asked to accept the fact that Rip Van Winkle, through magic, sleeps through twenty years of his life. He becomes an ant-hero of sorts by missing all his working years, ditching his nagging wife and finally living in relative comfort with his kindly daughter. I can't recall any textual evidence to support that this is merely a dream, which Rip Van Winkle trudges back down the mountain back to his nagging wife.
 

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