On Bay street in Toronto, or a modern hospital, or a subdivision family, the first suggestion of evil won't come from a snake. Each situation will have its own means of insinuation. Nor does evil grow on trees. Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die. What goes wrong is not from poisonous fruit but being infected by moral evil.
Temptation has a sequence.
First there is a half truth. And the woman corrects the snake to point out that God allowed them to eat from any of the beautiful fruits which were there in the garden for their joy. The one thing they must not do is to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was deadly. What really got to the woman was the sneering suggestion that God didn't really love her.