Amory’s vision of the devil is a strange moment in the novel that is quite distinct from the rest of the material. At first, it seems that the devil is a hallucination, but later, when Tom sees the same figure, it seems that something otherworldly may be occurring. What Amory truly sees is never clarified, but it is notable that it is the face of Dick Humbird that appears when Amory asks for comfort in the form of “some one stupid”: the memory of Dick seems to haunt Amory unconsciously.