I enjoyed reading this story because it was very comedic and a somewhat magical short story; it is very fantastical. Rip Van Winkle was so trusting of the random strange man in the mountains and then also with the strangers friends. Irving even wrote that Van Winkle was apprehensive and uneasy when he heard the man yelling for him and saw him climbing over the rocks. It is almost as if he is saying that one should listen to their gut when it is saying something. Since he slept through so many years, I find it funny that he just fit right into the crazy old man of the town and how he was so well liked by the kids because of his story and how he told anyone who would listen.
I laughed when Van Winkle heard of his wife's death and, "There was a drop of comfort" (465). He was definitely a very unhappy man when he was married and seems that he could not be happier that she is now gone and he does not have to deal with her anymore.
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