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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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"The Old Gentleman" is the nickname that Tom Walker calls the devil in Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker."
"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving is a story about a man who makes a deal with the devil for wealth, while "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows a man who loses his faith after encountering the devil in the forest. The key difference is that in Irving's story, the protagonist willingly enters into a pact with the devil, while in Hawthorne's story, the protagonist is tempted into doubting his beliefs.
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.
'The Devil and Tom Walker' is a short story published in 1824 by American writer, Washington Irving. The Devil is the antagonist in the story.
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.
Tom Walker's money becomes worthless at the end of the Devil and Tom Walker. His possessions had also disappeared.