Tom Walker and the devil

The devil and Tom Walker is a very ironic story. The story begins with a history lesson about how a man by the name of Kidd the pirate left behind this great treasure, this treasure is taken over by the “black man” which in this case is the devil. But year’s role past and there is this man named tom who seems to be going thru a rough patch in his life. It almost seems like him in his wife need to be in the middle of a divorce, which is ironic because I don’t even think divorce was created around at this time. Any who he stubbles into the devil one day and comes across a large lump sum of riches. And we all know the trick to making a deal with the devil and riches. It’s never going to turn out fair.
Tom is a different kind of man, although he is not portrayed that way in the story. Ironically he goes home to the wife that he can’t stand and asks her what he should do. She of course says that he should sell his should to the devil so that they can be wealthy for the rest of their days. He disagrees with her purposely, anything to make her mad since he dislikes her. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. This is not the typical action for a woman in these days but she gets some confidence and decides to approach the devil. He ends up murdering her or making her disappear and no one ever hears from her again.
Tom is very pleased with what the devil did, and decides to make a closer relationship with the devil. I don’t understand the motive behind this action. I personally think that the devil purposely set this up. His plan was to kill the wife and then he knew it would bring him and tom closer. The devil proposes the whole sell your sell deal to Tom once again. At first Tom seems to fight the temptation, because the devil once him to be a slave holder. This is ironic to me because he is known as the “black man” so wouldn’t this make him African American? Anyway this slave deal doesn’t get him, but the next thing he offers is becoming something like a crook. So Tom sells his soul and starts cheating people out of their money but of course they don’t know. Times have gotten rough and they have no one else to turn to but Tom. He becomes a very wealthy man because of this but all of these riches mean nothing. His conscious begins to get haunted and he decides that he wants to become a full fledged Christian. His gut feeling tells him he should do this, but he should know that once you’ve sold your soul there is no way out.
This is different because Tom was a man who was not of superstitions but now he keeps a bible everywhere he goes. But one day not even the bible can save him. He ends up cheating the last person he can cheat and it was a poor old man who really didn’t deserve it. But some sort of evil side came out of Tom and in the blink of an eye the devil was at the door to take him to hell. I believe the moral of this story is: it doesn’t matter how many earthly riches you have it won’t do you any good in the afterlife. The whole story he and his wife were debating their souls over materialistic things. It just goes to show how much people will do for the hope of being rich