We are told in the introduction to this story the reason
why Jabez Stone was driven to making a deal with the Devil. Jabez Stone was so
exasperated by his repeated bad luck that one day, after a particularly trying incident
with a plowshare which he managed to break on a rock, with a whole host of other
unfortunate incidents that had occurred at the same time, it all got too much and he
shouted out:
"I vow it's enough to make a man want to sell his
soul to the devil! And I would, too, for two
cents!"
Thus it is that Jabez
Stone, who is described as being not a bad man to start with, is driven by his bad luck
to make his compact with the devil that Daniel Webster needs to rescue him
from.
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