Jaquan D. Jones
Mrs. Moore
American Literature
11.16.2015
The Devil and Tom Walker 2.0
There was a man who lived in the slums of Chicago by the name of Tom Walker. Now he was a stingy little fellow and no one knows how but he found himself as stingy little wife. Now these people hated each other and always plotted how they could cheat each other. And talk about cheap?!! The only reason they were still married is because they didn’t want to spend money on a divorce!
Tom and his wife lived in a small, smelly, apartment in a small, smelly, building with their small, smelly, dog that they found by the garbage dumpster. Of course, the Walkers never fed the poor pooch, and so it would lay by the radiator with its ribs bulging out and eat the occasional cockroach that dared crawl across the floor. Tom’s wife, in an effort to get rid of the dog, would often say that the dog would be better off if was still astray. …show more content…
It was a fairly short ride but Tom decided the longer he stayed out, the less time he’d have to be with his horrible wife, and so he walked home, rather slowly.
About halfway to his apartment he found a half-smoked cigarette in his path and stopped to smoke it. While he smoked he found a dead raccoon by a trashcan and wondered if he could trick his wife into eating it. As he he picked it up he was startled by a voice behind him,” Put that you filthy