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Title:The legend of the Sleepy Valley Irving skillfully used Gothic style to show the theme of conflict between reality and dream in the novel, revealing profoundly the social contradictions in the development of American social transformation. Great changes have taken place not only in North America, but also in other parts of Europe. The American people who love freedom, equality and democracy can only escape from reality. When we read "the legend of the sleeping Valley", we will find that Irving's theme of the Peach Garden, the Gothic style and the authenticity of the narrative will lead to the indeterminacy of the meaning of the text. Perhaps this is why the legend of "sleeping Valley" becomes one of the reasons why most of the comments in Irving's novels are concerned. Irving seems to have outlined a the Peach Garden for us in the text, but we can not help wondering about its reality when we go closer to scrutinizing it. The original name of the novel is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and "Hollow" itself has the meaning of "empty". After the elimination of the center, there is no Taoyuan, which implies the absence of postmodern meaning and the "void" with no central nature. Irving satirized Ikabad Klein but did not give up the examination and criticism of the old tradition represented by the sleeping valley. In the legend of the sleepy valley, there is an obvious two opposition: Ikabad Klein represents the changing American society, and Bloom represents the old tradition. Danjel Holow, the American literary criticism, believes that "the conflict between Ikabad Klein and Bloom symbolizes the conflict between the Yankees and the borderland people with regional characteristics - which soon became a theme of literature of the United States and the history of the country