Ichabod Crane Character detail	How it reveals Washington Irving’s ironic tone
The name Ichabod means “without glory”. His last name fits his appearance “Crane”. Also looks like a scarecrow. Spirit of famine. Appalling sound of the birch. He believed in “spare the rod, spoil the child”. “Ichabod’s students were certainly not spoiled”. He likes to share ghost stories with the ladies and talk about astrology. He gets spooked easily. He read a few books quite through. He’s an expert on Cotton Mather’s witchcraft. He compares Katrina (who’s a flirtatious rich girl) to food and wants her inheritance. He desires her father’s fancy estate. “Ichabod fancied all this and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadowlands, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains.” “When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete.” “a stouter man than he would have shrunk form the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired. He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature.” Ichy goes undercover as singing master to see Katrina. After being invited to a quilting frolic, Ichabod dresses up and gets a horse. He is compared to a “hero and his steed”. A gallant knight in a “romantic story”. “Arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.” “He could not help, too rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chocking with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor.” Ichabod ignores the rich surroundings and , “went straight to the stable and with several hearty cuffs and kicks, roused this steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters.” A famer who visited NYC claims he saw Ichabod who ran out of fear of the ghost and embarrassment over Katrina. The “old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means.” The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe; the deserted school house is reported to be haunted by Ichabod and his horse. People swear they hear his ghost whistling the psalms.

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