The Devil Of Tom Walker And Th Essay -- essays research papers

Despite the record that Washington Irving uses to show his love for America in his stories, he portrays approximately characters in the Devil and Tom Walker and The Legend of Sleepy moil as greedy. Irving shows concern for America by placing stories in uniquely American moments. In this essay I will prove through passages and quotes from Irvings stories that he shows his love for America in his stories and portrays some characters as greedy in the two stories.     The historical settings of these stories is made apparent by the use of elements park to the revolutionary era. In The Devil and Tom Walker when Irving is describing the setting he gives an impression that it took place in America. In describing the setting he says, "It had been the fortress of the Indians during their war with the colonists." Since the war took place in America this is one inference of his love for America. Another is when Irving is describing the devil and he makes the p oint that he a particularly American devil. When the devil first meets Tom and the devil is intercourse him about himself he says, "I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists I am the great patron and prompter of slave dealers and the grandmaster of the Salem witches." In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow there are many American traits in the description of the setting. It is said by some to be the phantom of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a...