ENGL 225 Lecture 6: Lecture 6.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: English (Arts)
• Course: ENGL 225
• Professor: Peter Gibian

Document Summary

Landscape story, where the atmosphere of the environment sets the general tone of the story. Less rational than franklin"s and far less public/productive. Rip is not a conventional man for his time, doesn"t do his share of the job for the family, doesn"t provide food or money for the family, but hates petticoat government". Goes into nature to hunt, not as an adventurous frontiersman, but rather as more of a tourist to see in the landscape. Rip is not a civilizer, he moves away from the town into the forest to bring some of the landscape back with him. If you don"t use it you lose it with his gun . Boyish, emotionally underdeveloped, not yet able to grow fully into a man, from a young child to an old man (old age regression). All of it trying to get away from the annoying wife.