One thing that’s interesting is that Ichabod seems to be interested in her largely for a wealth-whether he has affection or even mere lust for her seems beside the point.īut another of Katrina’s suitors, the large, vigorous, Brom Bones (actually Brom Van Brunt, but his nickname is Brom Bones) does not take kindly to the girl he’d been wooing spending all her time with the awkward schoolmaster. He’s mean to his students, unless he sees an opportunity of mooching free meals off their mothers or flirting with their older sisters.Įventually, Ichabod’s fancy is caught by Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of the wealthy Baltus Van Tassel. He is-if I may cut through the florid 19 th-century lingo-kind of a jerk. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher in a region of New York known as Tarrytown in the early 19th-century. “Geoffrey Crayon” being a pseudonym of Washington Iriving. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story, originally published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, by John Quidor (1858)
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