AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition?
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His weakness for spirits
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That he is henpecked by his wife
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His love of town gossip
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His unwillingness to work
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -“The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour, ” says Irving’s narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker. I apologize for the word “insuperable, ” but what Knickerbocker is saying is that Rip was sort of a deadbeat, someone who avoided work of any nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Irving wrote, “The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour.” That is not to say that he was averse to all kinds of hard work, just that hard and profitable work that was his own.
Detailed explanation-3: -The only problem with Rip was that he was very lazy. He did no work on his own farm and just idled away his time.
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