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A 3 page paper which examines the role of the narrator in Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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stories. It is also considered to be quite the classic. As one author notes, it is a story that "helped establish his reputation as a humorist" (The Mark Twain House
and Museum). As with any story the narrator plays a very important part in how the reader interprets, enjoys, perceives, and understands a story. The following paper examines the role
of the narrator in Twains story. Narrator in Mark Twains The Notorious Jumping Frog The reader gets the impression, in the very beginning, that the narrator is a
well educated and perhaps rather sedate individual. He is clearly intelligent and clearly a man who would be considered a good representation of an educated man of the times. This
is seen in the following opening line: "In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon
Wheeler, and inquired after my friends friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result" (Twain). In this one can almost even see a sense
of arrogance and stoic characteristics. The story itself, however, is anything but stoic or educated. It is entertaining and all but unbelievable. But, in having such an educated and
sedate man introduce the story, and tell the reader about the story, the reader is made to believe that it is a very true story from the perspective of the
narrator. It is also important to understand that the story is apparently one told to Twain, and so Twain stands as the narrator: "Twain reputedly heard the story from Ross
Coon" who resided in a place where many miners, now out of work, spent their days "betting on nearly anything, including how far a frog would jump" (Hammon 31). This
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