The Devil and Tom Walker

The Devil and Tom Walker

What inferences can be made about the charcterization and mood of the hewn trees in the story?

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Tom first sees the Devil dressed like a lumberjack. His swamp-like lair has a sense of staleness about it. There are rotting trees are scattered around. These trees look good on the outside but are rotting on the inside. The rotting represents the sins of man that lay hidden from the world beneath a "good" exterior.