By Washington Irving
Later in the story Tom can not find his wife. He is worried about his wife because she takes the silver out their house into the swamp, so he looks for her and finds the sack where all the silver was carried but his wife was no were to be found. Out of the no were he decides to look inside the sack and he finds her heart inside. Then he looks for the devil to thank him for getting rid of her wife and that's a direct characterization. As you can see this short story has a lot of direct and indirect characterization.
