The Devil and Tom Walker Important Characters

Tom Walker - protagonist who meets the devil in the woods one day, eventually makes a deal with him that he will become a usurer in exchange for buried treasure and then is taken off to hell before he dies

Mrs. Walker - Tom's greedy wife who doesn't want to wait for Tom and decides to make her own deal with the devil, which results in her death

Deacon Peabody - a rich man in town who owns a lot of land

Absalom Crowninshield - a rich man in town who suddenly dies

Old Scratch - aka the devil, the black woodsman, etc. meets Tom in the woods and tries to make a deal with him, meets Tom's wife and kills her leaving her liver and heart tied up in her apron in a tree, eventually makes an agreement with Tom, which later leads to him coming to claim Tom's soul



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