 | Richard Bales - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...bowls in the mountains. Rip ends up a patriarch sitting at the inn door. Inevitably and appropriately, 'he used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel'. To my knowledge, Proust did not read Irving and did not know Rip's story. Thus the parallel becomes... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 255
...Indeed, the story, somewhat bewilderingly, tells us that what we are reading is Rip's story above all: He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived...have related, and not a man, woman, or child in the neighborhood but knew it by heart. (783-4) The story, in other words, is overwhelmingly invested in... | |
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... dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes ; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate or joy at his deliverance. He... 
