The Question and Answer section for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
I suppose it creates a connection with the reader. The story has the mood and tone of a ghost story or local mythology. The narrator fills that familiar perspective for the reader.
They have been brought up on stories of superstition and local mythology. Stories were passed down from generations.
When Ichabod leaves he is devastated and depressed.
What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great...
