“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving. Irving makes fun of the though of marriage by using satire by using two characters in the story as an example. In the short story Irving ridcules marriage by talking about Tom and his wife. His wife was heard in wordy warfare with Tom, He lived a long time with a termagant wife, and she left with some of their valuables.
“Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words” (pg 19). Tom was very simliar to his wife because they bother were miserly that they were not always on the same page that they would sometimes cheat eachother. Tom and his wife lived in a forlorn house, as he put it. There was nobody