1) Plot Description
“Chaim Soutine… My little Kalmuck, that's who it is!” Drioli remembers a night thirty years before, when he had come home from his tattoo parlor flush with cash and bearing bottles of wine. The boy (Soutine) had been painting a picture of Drioli's wife, with whom he was infatuated. 2) Soutine lived in discomfort and poverty until his death when he became world renowned for his unique style of painting. In "Skin," Soutine is a friend of Drioli, Drioli was like a mentor to Soutine and constantly referred to him as "boy." Soutine was a man of Jewish heritage and died during World War II. 3) Greed is shown in every character in the story, they all want more money or ... Drioli is willing to part with the only tangible piece of his old life for even a day of ...
Maybe write about when you got in trouble and learned a new life lesson
Wow, I need to have more cents with my money.
I Knead you to please hand me that bread.
Tom moves to Boston and becomes successful, exacting hard terms and showing no mercy to those in his debt. Growing older, Tom regrets his bargain and searches to find a way out of the pact. He becomes zealous in church attendance, prays loudly and publicly, keeps an open Bible in his home, and always carries a small one with him. He does not, however, give up his harsh business practices.
One hot afternoon, dressed in a white linen cap and silk morning gown, Tom is about to foreclose a mortgage. When the poor victim begs for a delay, reminding Tom of the money he previously made from him, Tom replies, “The devil take me . . . if I have made a farthing!” Immediately, there are three knocks at the door, and standing in the street is Old Scratch and a black horse.
Having left the small Bible in his coat and having covered the large one with the mortgage, Tom is helpless to prevent the devil from placing him on the horse, which gallops off down the streets of Boston. The next day, his house burns to the ground, and Tom never returns. It is said, however, that the swamp and Indian fort are haunted by a spirit on horseback wearing a white cap and morning gown. The story is so well-known, says the narrator, that it is the source of the New England saying, “The Devil and Tom Walker.”
