From the thorough description of Tom, one finds out that he isn’t a lovely character. “...there lived near this place a meager, miserly fellow, of the name Tom Walker” (Irving 314). The man also has a wife that is very similar to him, but more aggressive. Birds of a feather flock together, yes? Tom chooses a shortcut one day that leads him in the presence of the Devil. Where he gives him an offer and Tom leaves contemplating it. He briefs his wife about his interaction and in spite of her doesn’t take the offer. When his wife goes missing with their good property he goes out in search of her to find that she has ultimately disappeared. He’s happy to find the Silver but cares not that his “beloved” wife is nowhere to be found. He concludes that
