The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calavers County Summary

In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County”; Mark Twain writes about a man named Simon Wheeler, who tells the story of infamous gambler Jim Smiley.Throughout the text several tone shifts can be found that portray different emotions and paints vivid pictures in order to keep the reader interested. In the first paragraph the narrator implies that his friend may have tricked him into hearing Wheelers mindless babble about Jim Smiley.”If I asked Wheeler about him it would remind him of the infamous Jim Smiley and he would go to work and nearly bore me to death...If that was the design it certainly succeeded.”This quote portrays the narrator's annoyance as he had already heard Wheeler's story.The reason the narrator was talking to Wheeler