The Question and Answer section for The Devil and Tom Walker is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The framework of this short story follows the famous German legend about a man named Faust, who made a pact with the devil and exchanged his soul for limitless knowledge and worldly pleasures. Just like numerous other works of literature, films,...
Tom's wife plays an antagonistic role in the novel. She is unpleasant and miserly, just like her husband, with a fierce temper and a quick tongue.
From the text:
"Your grounds!" said Tom, with a sneer; "no more your grounds than mine; they belong to Deacon Peabody."
"Deacon Peabody be damned," said the stranger, "as I flatter myself he will be, if he does not look more to his
own sins and less...
