This quote goes along with the story The Devil and Tom Walker, where Tom Walker and his wife’s lifelong greed had caused there death. Greed is important in the story with the two characters meeting up with a third character who takes them for there greed. Whether it was an early death or a later death, the greed of Tom Walker and his wife stuck with them through there demise. The devil even shows trees to Tom to show the greed of the elite of the town to where the fall of the tree causes the death upon whose name is carved. During the beginning of the story, Tom meets this mysterious man in the swamp. The devil is revealed and so is the mystery of a lost treasure where if Tom agreed could be his. After Tom’s wife is told about this, her greed