Archetypal Theme Of Greed In The Devil And Tom Walker

Selling one’s soul to the devil is an archetypal theme as old as time itself. In the story The Devil and Tom Walker as well as in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman, Tom Walker and Queen Raveena are motivated by greed. In the story The Devil and Tom walker by Washington Irving Tom Walker is motivated by greed. During the story Tom and his wife are always hiding eggs and other things from each other in their forlorn looking house. Tom was also never a man to stick at trifles when large sums of money were in view. This means he was greedy when it came to money. So you would think he would take the deal the devil offered him, which was that he could captain kidds treasure that was buried in the swamp. But Tom didn’t take that deal at first,