Podcast #1 - Washington Irving

Has anyone happened to notice the severe similarities between the relationships in "Sleepy Hollow" and Irving's other story, "The Wife?"

I have personally read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" before, and I find it so funny how there is such a similarity between the relationship of Leslie and Mary in "The Wife" and Ichabod and Katrina in "Sleepy Hollow."  With both pairs, we see the situation of a lowerclass man trying to make a relationship work with an upperclass.  Being that both works take place in America, this is appropriate due to the typical dream of those immigrants coming to the nation - one of a country where anything is possible and the streets are paved with gold.