In the short story, ¨The Devil and Tom Walker¨ by Washington Ivory, the atmosphere can be described as gloomy and desperate. The main character, Tom Walker, lives in Boston Massachusetts in a small, stagnant home with his wife abusive wife. They're both very selfish, yet they do share one thing, greed. The control of money takes place between the couple, causing Tom to make a very unfortunate deal with the devil. The small eroding home in which Tom lives can be profiled as gloomy,¨ They lived in a forlorn looking house that stood alone, and had an air of starvation¨(Irving 154). The old desperate home was a target for negativity as its description correlates with that of a cemetery. Townspeople are explained to feel so repelled just by the
