The mood is spooky or scary. Irving uses creepy words like "skeleton."
sarcastic and darkly humorous
Washington Irving uses a very ironic and sarcastic tone in "The Devil and Tom Walker." He pokes fun at the titular character by subtly describing his misery in a darkly comedic manner.
No he tries to cheat the devil
who is old scratch in "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Tom Walker sells his soul to the devil in The Devil and Tom Walker. Eventually, the devil comes to his home and takes him away on a black horse.
The satire of the story is Tom and his wifes marriage.
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Old Scratch and Tom Walker
"The Old Gentleman" is the nickname that Tom Walker calls the devil in Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker."
In "The Devil and Tom Walker," the devil asks for Tom Walker's soul as payment for granting him wealth and success. Tom refuses to give his soul, but the devil takes him to hell anyway.
In Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker", Tom's wife attempts to extract a deal with the Devil by bringing him all of the silver in the Walker House. Things go very badly for Mrs. Walker and she is killed by the Devil. Tom, who never liked his wife, is happy she is gone and doesn't even trouble the Devil about the return of his belongings.