Social Differences in Twain's: Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog

In Mark Twains, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, the language used by the narrator allowed readers to grasp a tiny portion of how socially different people are on the west edge when compared to the east coast. Mark Twain was the epitome of what people would remember the southern gentleman. He was courteous, and well-mannered. One can easily see Twains dangerous manners and courtesy with a look at how he starts out his fiction, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.

Rather than write to Mr. A. Ward and portray him somewhat his deceiving words and become angry, Twain simply says that,

I subscribe to a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth- that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if I asked old bicycler about him it would cue him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me closely to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as dogged and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was your design, Mr. Ward, it will live up to you to know that it succeeded(59-60).

Ever the gentleman, Twain continues telling Mr. Ward about the story old Simon bicyclist told him about Jim Smiley. Twain makes the reader hook on that he is a good, well-mannered man by intercommunicate Simon Wheeler to tell him about Rev.



Leonidas W. Smiley, and saying that, I let him go on his own way, and never interrupted him erstwhile(60).

        Simon Wheeler was a simple man whom only cherished to help Mark Twain in his inquiry about Leonidas Smiley but, as simple people are apt to do, Wheeler remembers a different man, named Jim Smiley, and Wheelers tale begins. It is very apparent that Wheeler is a simple man by the way...

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