Tenets Used in The Devil and Tom Walker

•The super natural: mythical characters, such as the Devil, the unexplainable (Tom's disappearance)

•Symbols: the woods symbolizing a place of danger (Tom's wife's death)

•Individualism (Tom's greed and paranoia)

•Fear (Tom turns to a religion he doesn't believe in only to save himself, also ties in with individualism)

•Celebration of nature (in the description of the woods