In “ The Celebrated Jumped Frog of Calaveras County

The character of Simon Wheeler is a symbol of everything that easterners thought about those living on the frontier, but just as he flips the table on eastern prejudices about themselves through “Mark Twain” so does he tweak the image of the uncouth rube easily bamboozled by the superior education of those traveling from the east. Wheeler is uncouth, crude, loud, boisterous, ungainly and far from a dandy, but it is he who seems to have gotten the better of the rube.