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11111nata11111 [884]
3 years ago
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Read this passage from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” What can we assume about Simon Wheeler, based on the de

scription by the narrator? He (Simon Wheeler) never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he tuned the initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse.
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earnstyle [38]3 years ago
3 0

Simon is sincere and believes the stories that he tells. This is the answer because of the word play shown such as " impressive earnestness and sincerity" "he regarded it as a really important matter" this is the only[ answer that makes sense to me.

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