Symbolism+in+Devil+and+Tom+Walker

Symbol: __The Tree__ ** Symbolizes the upperclass citizens of society who are tall and mighty on the outside, yet rotten and hollow on the inside. "on which grow a few scattered oaks of great age and immense size." (p.350) "fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core" (p.353) "he now looked around, and found most of the tall trees marked with the name of some great man of the colony and all more or less scored by the ax." (p. 553)

"the trunk of a fallen hemlock (p. 352)

"already overgrown in part by oaks and other forest trees, the foliage of which formed a contrast to the dark pines and hemlocks of the swamp" (p. 352)

"his attention was attracted by the clamor of of carrion crows hovering about a crypress tree..." (p. 356) **Symbol:** __**The skull**__ Symbolizes the struggle the Indian warriors went through on the grounds in which Tom is walking. "a cloven skull... a dreary momento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors." (p.352)

Symbol: The House Symbolizes how Tom and his wife are feeling and how their life is being lived.

"they lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air of starvation" (p. 351) "a few straggling savin trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it; no smoke ever curled from its chimney; no traveler ever stopped at it's door" (p. 351)

"sometimes he would lean his head over the fence, look piteously at the passersby and seem to petition deliverance from this land on famine" (p. 351) Symbol: Kidd's Treasure Symbolizes greed and poor descision making.

"all these were under his command, and protected by his power, so that none could find them but such as propitated his favor" (p. 354) "but they were to be had only under certain conditions" (p. 354)