美国文学-瑞普_凡_温克尔夫人形象解析.docVIP

Dame Van Win kle is described as a captious, man-eati ng woma n who always scolds her husba nd in this story. But for me, Mrs. Win kle is a brave laborious woman As a villain, she makes Rip Van Winkle s image of a “ simple, good-natured man ” more clear, and she is the carrier of the prejudice of womenin that society. So in my opinion this story does carry sexual prejudice. Damevan winkle is a typical hellcat according to the description in the story. She always taxes with her husba nd volubly and acting very shrewish. Form the description of Rip as “a kind neighbor, and a husband who obeyed his wife ” in the beg inning if the story, we can see that in rip s family, the person who role the roast is Dame Van Winkle and she controls her husband with her power. With this description, our first expression of Mrs. Winkle is that she is a domineering woman.Whenwe read the sentence: ” her tongue was endlessly going. Everything he said or did was sure to produce more angry talk. ” we can get the image that DameVan win kle is sharp-t on gued and fractious. As the developme nt of the plot, the author portrayed a picture that Mrs. Win kle break into the club to blame all the people about their worthless ness and idle ness. After readi ng all these evide nee above, it is easy for us to build up the expressi on that dame van win kle is a really virago in the small village. But if we read deeply into the story we can find that this kind of image is carry ing a lot of prejudice. Mrs. Win kle is a special woma n and she is brave and hardworking. The story tells us that rip is a kind and easy-going man, when his wife blames him, he never talk back. At the sametime, the author also write that “ Rip Van Winkle had one great fault; he disliked---in deed, he hated--- any kind of profitable labour. ” The condition of his farm is worse than any of his neighbors but rip is still won deri ng in the woods or laz ing away with the people in the club in stead of doing farm work. It meanstha