Goblin men are equivalent to Satan and the fruit is the temptation to sin. In line 30 of the poem, the fruit is called "sweet to the tongue and pleasant to the eyes" making the reader understand that this is a temptation. Just like the serpent that leads everyone astray in the Garden of Eden, the Goblin men try to trick the sisters into "coming and buying" their fruit. Goblin men have animal-like characteristics similar to the story of the Garden of Eden, where Satan takes the form of a serpent. The goblin men work in unison to lure Laura, just as the serpent tricks Eve into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge (Blackwell). As we know the goblin men convinced Laura to eat the fruit even though she had no money, she exchanged a lock of her hair, also known as her innocence, for the fruit. Laura trading her innocence for a taste of the fruit is similar to how the serpent persuaded Eve to commit the first