The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

What does the following passage mainly reveal about Tom (paragraph 1)? He got out his worldly wealth and examined it—bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure fr

What does the following passage mainly reveal about Tom (paragraph 1)?

He got out his worldly wealth and examined it—bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.
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Tom tries to get out of work by getting other boys to do it by bribe and manipulation. This shows Tom to be rather lazy but clever.