Table of Contents
- 1 How is Tom Walker best described?
- 2 What word best describes Tom Walker and his wife?
- 3 What adjectives in the second paragraph describe Tom and his wife?
- 4 What is Tom’s personality in The Devil and Tom Walker?
- 5 How would you describe Tom Walker and his wife as individuals and as a couple?
- 6 What does the saying The Devil and Tom Walker mean?
- 7 What is Tom Walker described as?
How is Tom Walker best described?
Tom Walker might be best described as what? Stingy and cruel but courageous.
What word best describes Tom Walker and his wife?
In the story, Tom and his wife are described as “miserly”.
What words and phrases in paragraphs three and five describe Tom and his wife?
What words and phrases in paragraphs three and five describe Tom and his wife? How would you describe their marriage? They are both miserly, she is hot tempered, loud mouth, quick to physical fights.
What adjectives in the second paragraph describe Tom and his wife?
Tom’s wife is later described in the same paragraph as a “tall termagant” who is both “fierce” and “loud” and finally “strong of arm.” She is presented as such a formidable figure that unmarried men walk past their clearing and rejoice in their bachelor status.
What is Tom’s personality in The Devil and Tom Walker?
A “meagre miserly fellow,” Tom Walker is first and foremost outrageously, self-destructively greedy. He despises his miserly, abusive wife and has nothing to live for but the satisfaction of his desire for owning things.
How does The Devil and Tom Walker show romanticism?
“The Devil and Tom Walker” is an example of romanticism in American literature. Romanticism within literature stretched the inner feelings of characters and challenged them to change their pasts. Characters, such as Tom, his wife and even the devil, are acutely aware of pasts that they desire to change.
How would you describe Tom Walker and his wife as individuals and as a couple?
As was mentioned in the previous post, Tom Walker and his wife are both greedy, cantankerous, miserable individuals. At the beginning of the story, Irving describes Tom’s wife as being “termagant” (defined by Merriam-Webster as “an overbearing or nagging woman”) and having a fierce temper.
What does the saying The Devil and Tom Walker mean?
An American proverb, used as a caution to usurers. Tom Walker was a poor, miserly man, born at Massachusetts in 1727, and it is said that he sold himself to the Devil for wealth.
How would you describe Tom Walker?