Saturday, November 1, 2014

What sort of person is Jim Smiley?

Jim Smiley is pretty much the main character in this story.  I would say that he is what my grandparents used to call a "character."  In other words, he's kind of eccentric.


His main characteristic seems to be that he really loves to bet.  He loves to bet so much that he will, for example, even go out and find a frog for the stranger so that Jim's own frog can have someone else to compete against.


He's also kind of silly.  I think we see this in how he names his animals after famous people like Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster.

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