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Based on your reading of "The Devil and Tom Walker" how did Washington Irving and the Puritans feel about the amassing of wealth, or greed?
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Based on your reading of "The Devil and Tom Walker" how did Washington Irving and the Puritans feel about the amassing of wealth, or greed?

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because of the strong Puritan influence on literature during the 1800s, it is easy to show how wealth act as opposites to charity; Tom Walker is a greedy man and even in his "repentance," which is only lip-service, he acts greedy, leading directly to his personal destruction.

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