Heroes are often remembered as larger than life. In "The Devil and Daniel Webster", Stephen Vincent Benet portrays “Dan’l” Webster as larger than life. In fact, Dan’l is portrayed as the biggest man in the country who is trusted right next to God Almighty (187). The essence of heroism is captured when a genuine American hero is re-created into a mythological superhero that puts his own soul at risk when he saves the soul of an ordinary man (188, 192). Benet tells the story of how a man who can make stars and stripes come right out of the sky when he speaks, defends an extremely unlucky New England farmer named Jabez Stone. Ja