reach his goal. He represents dishonesty through his deception of the other characters. Rather than respect nature, he wants to capitalize on it. The yellow color of his suit could stand for gold, the color of wealth. As he has no redeeming qualities, he might be considered to represent evil and is perhaps personified as the Devil.

In the novel, Winnie is presented as innocent and possessing only noble intentions. She not only respects nature, but also considers the feelings of the Tuck family members. She can be trusted to keep their secret both to help keep them safe and to protect the woods. The stranger is shown as the polar opposite of Winnie. He does not simply desire to own the woods and the spring or even to get rich from them. Instead, he plots and schemes to get his own way. He follows the Tucks, steals their horse, and even extorts Winnie’s grandparents in a bad-faith deal over revealing her whereabouts.

Without a more specific chapter reference, I am going to assume that this question is asking about the man in the yellow suit and chapter four. This is the chapter where he meets Winnie Foster for the first time. He admits that he is looking for a family, and Winnie says that her family has lived there "forever." The man in the yellow suit then gets very interested when Winnie's grandmother says that she has heard the music that is coming from the woods before. The music stops, Winnie and her grandmother go inside, and the man in the yellow suit stands there with an expression of "intense satisfaction." I believe a reader can confidently predict that the man in the yellow suit is looking for whoever is playing the mystical music in the woods.