The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Hardcover - USA - 1967.

Author Mark Twain Published 1865-11-18 Type Fiction, Short Story Genre Comedy Themes Comedy Age Group Adult

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, originally published as Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog is a short story by Mark Twain first published in The New York Saturday Press on 1865-11-18.

The story describes a gambling addict who trains a frog to jump on command to win contests.

Personal

Own?	Compilation book.
Read?	Compilation book.
Finished	2023-01-18.

Although I had not become a fan of Twain's work from the first two novels I read of his, I hoped I might fare better with one of his short stories. I did not.

Review

Overall:

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Good

• Maybe someone could get a anti-gambling or don't be se trusting moral out of the story?

Bad

• The story is often described as humor, but I didn't find it very funny.

Ugly

• Jim Smiley entrusting his prized frog to a stranger he hopes to win money from, unsupervised, for a length of time, just isn't believable.
• This story just wasn't interesting.

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are no women.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no women.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Everyone is white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

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