The Devil and Tom Walker

How do wealth influence Tom's Walkers behavior in the story

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Tom does not change very much even when he does have money. After he is rich, he is still frugal and stingy. He has a fancy house to show off his wealth but no furniture inside.

"He built himself, as usual, a vast house, out of ostentation, but left the greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony. He even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain-glory, though he nearly starved the horses which drew it; and, as the ungreased wheels groaned and screeched on the axle-trees, you would have thought you heard the souls of the poor debtors he was squeezing."

how does Tom walker change his behavior as he grows older on page 237 ? What motivates this change - The devil and Tom Walker "