Sometimes we lose ourselves in our faults, vices, and desires, and they come to rule our lives. We are usurped from the throne of ourselves and our sinful side rules. In his short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” Stephen Vincent Benét explores these human tendencies.
The hardest and worst luck often befalls man, and this can break him. And so it does to Stone, for he has the worst luck in the entire village. He owns the poorest livestock and the rockiest fields. His family faces constant struggles: “If he plants corn, he gets borers; if he plants potatoes, he gets blight.”…