In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving is saying that the values in American society lie in the wrong place chosing wealth and financial prosperity over the well-being of others.
Irving sees America becoming greedy and warns the reader not to follow Tom Walkers ´s path that led him to exchange his soul to the devil blinded by his ambition for money.
This statement reflects the popular themes of individualism in the romantic era. The American romantics believed that a man's choices decided his fate. Washington Irving shows how Tom chooses the wrong direction that led him astray from the true values of humanity.
The answer for sure is the first two
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1. "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!" (Plutonian alludes to the Roman god of the underworld)
2. "On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door." (Pallas alludes to a Greek titan god)
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Thus Lopez starts the first chapter with a visual directive to the reader: “Imagine a wolf moving though the northern woods…”
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