Irving story mainly depicts that time keeps changing whether one person is there or not. Explanation:"Rip Van Winkle" by "Washington Irving" is written in the Romantic Movement in America. The novel portrays romanticism by featuring three key elements in the story. It mentions supernatural elements, the nature’s beauty and individual’s uniqueness. The nature’s beauty is shown in the beautiful mountains in Winkle’s town. Rip Van Winkle is described as a pleasant man and is also a henpecked husband. He takes a 20-year nap and sees that the world doesn’t stop and keeps changing around him. He meets different people in his sleep and when he gets up the world is entirely different. "Freedom" is also one of the themes of the story. Rip gets freedom from his wife as when he wakes up after 20-year nap, she had died.