Manipulation In Washington Irving's The Devil And Tom Walker

In the short story titled The Devil and Tom Walker, the author Washington Irving shows that any dealing for more power can and will be bad for you. Irving show the topics of manipulation, greed, and values. These topics show what Irving was trying to discuss about.

In the short story, Tom is shown to be corrupted by greed. He was shown trying to get more money from a poor land-jobber who was asking for more time. As quoted from the story, “He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator”. (Irving, Washington. The Devil and Tom Walker.) The land-jobber was then forced to mortgage his land to Tom who was anxious to get it. This piece of evidence from the story shows how Tom was