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Wealth In The Devil And Tom Walker

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In search of wealth: Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker In The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, Tom Walker is out to get rich by all means and he ends up in the amorality path as he pursues wealth through greed. The main theme of the story is greed, but other related themes that play an important role in the story include corruption, misery, and lack of morals. Several characters in The Devil and Tom Walker are engaged in the race of searching wealth and riches so much that they do not care about other human beings. Behind all the characters presented in The Devil and Tom Walker, there is a slave trader figure with extreme greed that sacrifices his own conscience to earn large profits and treats people the same way as property.

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