How does the contrasting diction of Simon Wheeler and the narrator contribute to the development of the story?

Their contrasting diction reflects how different the two men are and helps create irony in the story.

Explanation:

This question is about the short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain.

The narrator of the story is instructed by a friend to talk to a man named Simon Wheeler. He is supposed to ask Wheeler about a man called Leonidas Smiley. It turns out that the narrator's friend is setting him up to listen to a sequence of supposedly funny and harmless, as well as useless, stories about a man named Smiley who trained a frog to jump higher than any other frog in the county.

Readers can see how impossible it will be for the narrator to enjoy Wheeler's tales. Twain uses their different types of diction to convey their different intellectual levels and perspectives. The narrator uses high diction. Wheeler's low diction, on the other hand, makes his story quite compelling and fun to listen to. Yet, that is not how the narrator feels. He leaves as soon as has the chance, angry at the friend who deceived him. He has simply and ironically wasted his precious time for nothing.