Huck Finn and Tom Walker

I think that people should pursue wealth if they feel that they would like to, but they should not exploit another person ,or persons in order to achieve this. Some people have becoming wealthy as a life goal; which they attempt to achieve by putting themselves in a place where they would be capable of earning a large sum of money, over time or all at once. People usually go about doing this by working at high paying jobs, trying to win the lottery, or by gambling, which for the most part can be a respectable or honest method of earning money. Some people though, choose to use more cruel, dastardly methods in order to obtain this goal of being wealthy. This is where the story "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving begins to come into play. Instead of trying to earn his wealth the honest way, he took the easier way, which later came back to haunt him. I think that if Tom had not listened to his wife when she said that he should comply to the terms of the "Black Man," or "Old Scratch," then he wouldn't of had the problems that he later recieved. I would call this story an example of the limitations of how far people should go to be able to recieve wealth. Those limits I think should basically be that a person can do anything that helps them recieve wealth, as long as it doesn't exploit another person or group of people on a major scale.