Ichabod Crane may be called a protagonist of the story. He was a "... native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew..."
Crane was a school teacher, and I should say, a successful one. One of his sources of pleasure was "...to pass the long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives… listening to their marvelous tales of ghosts and
goblins…" Furthermore, he adored food and everything, connected with eating.
On the one hand I can say that Ichabod was a comic character, but from the other- he was a tragic one. The funniest thing connected with him was love to the daughter of the rich farmer- Katrina Van Tassel, and, of course, his rivalry with Brom Bones for the heart of "The Beloved Mistress". I liked the notion of the "Love Triangle" and in the story it was vividly depicted. Of course, I don't agree with all the actions of the characters, because some of them were smart and some carried absolute failure, but it was interesting to read the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" because of it's comic effect.
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