Ripp Van Winkle's Wake Up

There's no mention of time in the story. It doesn't seem that way to me because things change even after he's woken up in the course of a day. So suddenly, Levinson is not, as I think you felt at the beginning of the story, at the helm of his activity,. Even if being at the helm is just being a very close observer of it. Suddenly his observational confidence is a little shaken.