ripVanWinkle读后感

Report of Rip Van Winkle
These days I’ve read a passage named Rip Van Winkle . It’s a short story written by Washington Irving published in 1819.
The story is about Rip Van Winkle, who lived under his wife’s controlling, an obedient henpecked husband. He is always criticized by his wife for lazy in housework and not caring about the family at home. In fact,he does .He was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own；but as to doing family duty ,and keeping his own farm in order ,he found it impossible .He has a good temper to his neighborhood , which gained him such universal popularity .
One day ,Rip take to the outside of the house to avoid his wife’s blames with his dog .On his way back home ,Rip happens to meet a stranger and follows him .There ,he drink some miracle wine and falls asleep .Morning ,he wakes up and finds something usual happen to him .His clothes worn out ,his dog is gone ,his gun missing .At first ,he thought it is just a joke that the stranger played on him .He hurriedly goes home ,for he is afraid of his wife .As soon as he goes back to the village does he know what has happens .He has already slept for 20 years！During his sleeping-days ,his wife is dead and his friends have died in the war or gone other somewhere else .He immediately gets into trouble when he said he himself was a loyal subject of George Ⅲ,not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place and he is not supposed to be loyal subject of any hanoverial any longer . Fortunately , the mistakes disappear and he lives a more happy life again without his hash wife .
Through the action and words from Rip ,I learn that it is a little bit sad when the author faces the past time .He is sad to see the changes between peoples and
life .。