It still catches the eye how Sleepy Hollow is described in the book. The name is consistent with that lifestyle, which led its inhabitants. “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.” (Baym 965) ‘However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions’ (Baym 966). To my mind, in the movie it is impossible to express such feelings as the author of the book …show more content…
Another place of action is Van Tassel’s mansion. ‘It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high- ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather’ (Baym 971). Given descriptions are similar to what is shown in the movie. Maybe not to the smallest details, but I don’t think that was the main aim of the director. General idea is