Although the regionalistic qualities of both the settings and the plots of The Outcasts of Poker Flat and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County differ, their characters possess some of the same regionalistic qualities. In Twain’s story, for example, the narrator is a stereotypical educated easterner who uses flamboyant and complicated language like “I hereunto append” (Twain 660), “interminable narrative” (Twain 662), and “enterprising vagabond” (Twain 666). A second example of Twain’s stereotypical characters is Simon Wheeler; his dialect is extremely prominent throughout Twain’s tale, especially when he frequently uses words like “feller,” “warn’t,” “Thish-yer,” and “bullyrag” (Twain 662, 663). Likewise, Harte expresses the characters
