Of the
five choices offered to support theof 's "," the two that are most applicable are the
third and the fourth. As a humorous story, this account doesn't rely on typical events or
characters. But Twain did create a character in Jim Smiley who controls his destiny rather than
one who is merely acted upon by outside events. Smiley loves gambling; rather, he is addicted to
it. So he finds animals that can perform in superior ways even though they don't seem
impressive. But his passion outweighs his reason in the end, allowing him to be tricked by
someone he challenged to a bet.
The best way in which Twain complies with
realism is in his descriptions of characters and environments. Writing for an Eastern audience
who wanted to know what the West was like, Twain realistically presented the people and
environment of the mining camps in this story. Simon Wheeler is a non-stop talker who speaks in
the regionalusing...
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