Tom's prominent personality traits I come across is that he's clever, manipulative, and he's simply active allowing his imagination run wild along with being greatly energetic. Throughout the novel from the beginning he is represented as a child who simply enjoys causing trouble doing things he shouldn't such as repeating his action of getting into the jam after Aunt Polly has told him not to. He goes on to use his skill to manipulate kids into doing his work for him or simply trading off items to gain tickets to get a bible from Sunday School. While he's left in a depressed state after not seeing Becky for a while Aunt Polly begins to try remedies and treatments to help him out of it, but ends up feeding the cat the pain killer. I simply