ENG 231 Lecture 1: Notes for reading quiz on 9
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Is friendly and willing to do everyone else"s work but his own: likes to go outdoors to escape from his wife, tavern- meeting area- men father to exchange information, relax, help each other. Notes for reading quiz on 9/4: encounters strange figures on the mountain who are drinking and bowling (9-pins)- rip drinks with them and falls asleep for 20 years. He thinks he slept through the next day because his dog is gone and everyone else. He goes back into town and everything is changed bc his friends are dead or gone. His wife has died which he is relieved about: he gets the life he always wanted- he tells story in the tavern all day and the town accepts him. Discussion questions: rip is not heroic- he just is lazy, rip is helpful to the townspeople and they see a good side of him and take his side of the story.
