Washington Irving's Depiction Of 'Rip Van Winkle'

Some people see marriage as a happy carefree life with someone you love, a unity where you both work equally as hard to keep things running smoothly. A marriage where the couple would do anything for eachother.Washington Irving’s depiction of “Rip Van Winkle” is what gives Dame, Rip’s wife, the justification to be constantly nagging her husband. The following passage found in the beginning of the story makes statements about Rip’s helpful yet inattentive personality, that can be seen as justification for Dame’s behavior:
The greater error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor. It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy