The first thing I noticed about "Rip Van Winkle" was the humor hidden within it. I chuckled about his lack of enjoyment in marriage and yet he is very well liked by the children in the town. Rip Van Winkles personality also stuck e as intriguing. On was hand, he is very charismatic and well like by the community. Yet, on the other hand, he is not invested in working around the house and his wife hates him. He seem also oblivious to life and he only care about chatting it up with his neighbors and friends around town.
There is a shift in the story after Van Winkle's twenty years of sleeping that seemed to me like the moral to a very tale. Van Winkle begins to care more about his life and family in general. He is choosing to be busier and begins bustling around town. There is evidence in the second half of the story that he is reinventing his path in life and becoming better. I also enjoyed noticing the subtle changes in the people becoming citizens of this new country.
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