Miserably poor Tom walker and his wife had a horrible relationship. Tom Walkers life was very ill due to losing his wife to a black man due to her greed and him deciding to make a deathful deal he becomes a hypocrite faking to be religious which leads to his death. His wife did not share anything with him. “She was secure to a new laid egg”. No smoke ever curled from their chimney. No one ever stopped at their door. When the devil first appears in the story he is described as a human-like figure neither Negro nor Indian. With a hoarse voice he asks “What are you doing on my grounds”. Tom noticed a tree marked with the name of Deacon Peabody. The trees were marked with the name of some great man. After a long conversation Tom starts to
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When he told her all her desire for wealth and greed was awakened. “She urged her husband to agree with the terms and take what would make them wealthy for life” (pg319). Tom did not agree. When she realized Tom would not sell himself she decided to bargain her own however the devil would not come to terms. The next evening she set off with her apron and every silver teapot every spoon and portable article which had value. Tom waited and waited for his wife, but she did not return. A great black man was seen with an ax carrying a bundle in a checker apron. In the bundle he only found a heart and a liver. Tom decided to agree with the terms of the devil. He was demanded to open a brokers shop in Boston. Walker was to lend money at two percent a month. “He was to extort bond foreclosures mortgages, and drive merchants to bankruptcy. He received a reputation of a moneyed man who lends money for good. Tom out of nowhere became a violent churchgoer. He prayed loudly and strenuously. Tom walker tried to become a very religious man. He knew the devil had his due. Walker had become very testy and irritated. Tom had lost his patience and piety “The Devil take me, “said Tom. There was three loud knocks on the door, and Tom saw a black man holding a horse. The Black man whisked him like a child into the saddle. He never returned to foreclose a
When he told her all her desire for wealth and greed was awakened. “She urged her husband to agree with the terms and take what would make them wealthy for life” (pg319). Tom did not agree. When she realized Tom would not sell himself she decided to bargain her own however the devil would not come to terms. The next evening she set off with her apron and every silver teapot every spoon and portable article which had value. Tom waited and waited for his wife, but she did not return. A great black man was seen with an ax carrying a bundle in a checker apron. In the bundle he only found a heart and a liver. Tom decided to agree with the terms of the devil. He was demanded to open a brokers shop in Boston. Walker was to lend money at two percent a month. “He was to extort bond foreclosures mortgages, and drive merchants to bankruptcy. He received a reputation of a moneyed man who lends money for good. Tom out of nowhere became a violent churchgoer. He prayed loudly and strenuously. Tom walker tried to become a very religious man. He knew the devil had his due. Walker had become very testy and irritated. Tom had lost his patience and piety “The Devil take me, “said Tom. There was three loud knocks on the door, and Tom saw a black man holding a horse. The Black man whisked him like a child into the saddle. He never returned to foreclose a