[
 {"chunk": 218, "story": 20, "summary": "On Christmas Eve a poor shoemaker works late, drinking to stay awake, finishing boots a customer abused him over, and grumbles that others enjoy themselves because they have money.", "predicament": "A poor man forced to work through a holiday for a rude customer resents that others celebrate while he labours."},
 {"chunk": 219, "story": 20, "summary": "He hates the strange customer, whose room once filled with sulphurous pink smoke, and dreams of the rich being ruined while he lords it over some other poor shoemaker.", "predicament": "A poor man who envies those above him dreams of trading places and lording it over someone else."},
 {"chunk": 220, "story": 20, "summary": "Delivering the boots through the snow, he is jeered at by rich passers-by and taunted by a prosperous rival who married money; he finds the customer pounding in his mortar again.", "predicament": "A poor man on an errand is mocked by his betters and taunted by a rival who has done better than him."},
 {"chunk": 221, "story": 20, "summary": "Fitting the boots, he discovers the customer has a hoof; instead of fleeing he flatters the devil, who asks what he wants.", "predicament": "A poor man meets someone with the power to grant any wish, and flatters him instead of running."},
 {"chunk": 222, "story": 20, "summary": "He pours out his lifelong envy of the rich and complaints about his good but coarse wife, and asks to be made rich; the devil wants his soul, and he insists on payment after delivery.", "predicament": "A man who has envied the rich all his life is offered wealth in exchange for his soul, and bargains over the terms."},
 {"chunk": 223, "story": 20, "summary": "He is transformed into a gentleman served an enormous dinner, eats until he is uncomfortably stuffed, and orders his old rival sent for.", "predicament": "A poor man suddenly made rich gorges on luxury, and finds even that becomes oppressive."},
 {"chunk": 224, "story": 20, "summary": "He abuses his rival as he was once abused, feels uneasy at the memory, counts his money but only wants more, and lies awake fearing thieves beside a new, grand wife.", "predicament": "A man newly raised above others treats them as he was once treated, and finds wealth only makes him anxious."},
 {"chunk": 225, "story": 20, "summary": "At church he sees rich and poor are equal before God and in the grave; when he sings or plays in the street, policemen and cabmen tell him it is not proper for a gentleman.", "predicament": "A man who has risen above his station finds all his old pleasures are now forbidden as improper for his rank."},
 {"chunk": 226, "story": 20, "summary": "Beggars mob him, and his new wife calls him a lout for trying to slap her back; the devil drags him to hell, and he wakes at his bench with the customer shouting that the boots are late.", "predicament": "A man who got what he envied finds it hollow and joyless, then wakes to find his old life waiting."},
 {"chunk": 227, "story": 20, "summary": "The customer turns out to make fireworks; the shoemaker hands over the boots, goes to church, and no longer envies the rich, since the same grave awaits all.", "predicament": "A poor man reconciles himself to his lot, deciding nothing the rich have is worth what it would cost him."}
]