In the story, “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving the author's portrayal of Dame Van Winkle is not fair because the story shows how Rip always has attitude with her and never listens, he is only helping others when she is at home doing everything, and he is always trying to do anything but go home when she is there all the time working for him. To begin with, he would sit and argue with her while she was doing things for him. She is always working, cleaning, and cooking for him and he is giving her nothing in return. Secondly, she would always be at her house working and he would sit there. He even refused to work at his own house, but he would work with everyone else in his town. Any time someone asked for helped he would be more than willing
