The Devil and Tom Walker

travelling Zionward were struck!" (Irving). The story of The Devil and Tom Walker is about a man making a deal with The Devil for wealth. He was given many temptations to make the deal, such as his horrible wife being murdered and him being told he could have wealth. Near the end of the end of the story he is taken by The Devil because he made the deal for his soul. The Devil and Tom Walker is the best example of romanticism. The Devil and Tom Walker shows the tenets of romanticism that are…

and legends, the fantasy of making a deal with the devil which sacrifice’s a person’s morality became common. This is called a Faustian Tale, and in numerous books and stories they are used to startle people and to advise people to not make deals with the devil. Such deals appears in “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving and in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. The short story is about a man who declines a deal with the devil, but once his wife disappears, he decides to make…

gain wealth by working hard and going after what they want. Sometimes going after what they want is not always a smooth ride. In Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the wickedness of humanity is constantly shown through Tom Walker’s relationship with his wife. To begin with, Irving sets the setting in the first paragraph by describing how Tom Walker and his wife’s connection languish. Both of their personalities are too similar that they both believe that they are right and don’t see the…

"The Devil and Tom Walker" contains numerous themes. This story focuses predominantly on the theme of greed and it's negative outcome. The protagonist, Tom Walker, is a man known for his greedy tendencies, living a sorrowful life with his wife, who is just as unpleasant and greedy as him. Where in the text is Tom Walker greedy? "Tom might have felt disposed to sell himself to the devil". Tom is vigorously tempted by the devil's alluring deal. This greed leads him to sell his soul to the devil in…

In the story of “The Devil and Tom Walker” many characters have been portrayed as an archetype. Tom Walker was an archetype of greed. Old scratch’s archetype was portrayed as despised and unlikable because of his actions. Tom’s archetype was a greedy man along with his wife who was always miserable. Each character in the story has an archetype that portrays them in the story. Tom walker one of the main characters in the story was portrayed as a very greedy man in the story. He would never spend…

will analyze the three main characters in “The Devil and Tom Walker”, I will also be describing how his wife and Old Scratch each demonstrate universal patterns of human behavior or commonly held beliefs. I will explain the theme of nonconformity in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and focus on the ideas of genius, society and self-worth. And lastly I will analyze the theme and mood of each poem by Longfellow, Dickinson and Whitman. To begin Tom displays patterns of human behavior and…

how not all religious icons (Popes and Deacons) are perfect and don't do bad things like everyone else. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Tom the main character and his wife care more about their property then their marriage. They both hide their valuable possessions away from each other, so that the other would not steal them. His wife is a very assertive woman she hits tom when they fight. Which is probably the reason why she got her self…

story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a religious example of literature from the Romantic Period. It offers various examples that…

The story, “A Devil and Tom Walker” has many important themes. These themes are important, because they make the story play out in a certain way. Some of these important themes include, greed, values, religion, manipulation, bargains, moral decay, temptation, morality and corruption, misery and evil vs. good. This story has the theme of greed, because it shows that Tom is greedy and that is why he ends up the way he ends up.…

primarily gives a strong signal to his audience in the short story called, "The Devil and Tom Walker." Through this short story, he expresses the value of life through a character by the name of Tom Walker. Throughout the story, it is said multiple times that Tom and his wife have an extremely miserable life together and that they are a lower class, slipshod type of family. Irving talks about the particular circumstance that Tom and his wife are living their lives haphazardly as if they have…