Compare And Contrast Ichabod Crane

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Ichabod Crane was a tall and thin schoolteacher. He was generally liked around town by the old busybodies because he was an excellent source for gossip. He is gluttonous, and scares himself with stories of monsters and dragons.
Brom Van Brunt on the other hand is quite the opposite. He is burly, strong, and a bit of a tolerated but well-liked town favorite. He is rowdy, brave, and loves adventure.
Even though these two characters are so different they do have similar qualities. For instance, they are both liked, or at least wanted, around the town. Ichabod rather makes people need him by providing himself as a traveling newspaper. He helps the farmers with their lighter work and tends the little children for their mothers. Brom Van Brunt …show more content…

Ichabod fancies himself in love with her after he visited her father’s wealthy farm. Brom loves her because she is a challenge, and rather he does love her for who she is.
These two men are polar opposites,and fight each other in different ways. When Brom finds out Ichabod is supposedly in love with Katrina, he plays a series of practical hokes on Ichabod, knowing the schoolteacher would not resort to physical violence. Ichabod goes under the radar, so to speak, and quietly flirts and spends time with Katrina
One of the most interesting things about these characters is that Ichabod makes himself in-disposable to the people, and the people make themselves in-disposable to Brom, in a way. Ichabod, as a schoolteacher to a small town, must rotate where he lives each week. Because he does not want his pupil’s families to get tired of him staying at there place each week, he provides gossip and frightening stories. He helps out, but he never does anything to make them resent him. He wants to be rich and marry Katrina so he can finally stop smiling at everyone and can stop acting like nothing bothers him. Brom is seems wants Katrina because it is such a challenge to keep a country

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