Tell Tale Hearts vs Devil And Tom Walker Tell tale hearts and devil and tom walker have many similarities and differences. Some similarities include deaths there and many deaths split between the two stories; in tell tale hearts the main character kills an old man and in devil and tom walker the devil takes people's souls after they gain the thing they wanted from the spirit. Another similarity is the main characters throughout the story. During Tell Tale Hearts, the main character in the story gets increasingly more paranoid, he becomes crazier and crazier as the story progresses. In Devil and Tom Walker the same thing happens to the main character; he goes crazy as the story goes on; the reader learns that he becomes a crazy old man in the