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What does the author of "The Devil and Tom Walker" express by satirizing women?

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Washington Irving cleverly satirizes the institution of marriage, Puritan culture, and the slave trade at various moments in the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker.” Irving satirizes the institution of marriage by depicting Tom's unhappy, violent marriage.

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