Nonetheless, there is an important detail to be noticed that sets the two settings apart. Unlike the story, where the setting starts in an old mining camp but in a more recent timeframe, the play jumps straight to the story of Jim Smiley in the mining camp in the 1950’s without the added outside story’s setting that the short story had. In addition, both stories had a well developed conflict of Jim Smiley being tricked by the stranger through character development and detailed scenes and descriptions. There were, although, some differences in the conflict that I noticed; for one thing, the play only had one conflict and the short story had two. In the play, Jim was tricked by the stranger and was angry about it for a long time. In the short story, it had two conflicts. One with Jim Smiley being tricked and the other one about the narrator trying to learn about Leo Smiley but coming up empty
Nonetheless, there is an important detail to be noticed that sets the two settings apart. Unlike the story, where the setting starts in an old mining camp but in a more recent timeframe, the play jumps straight to the story of Jim Smiley in the mining camp in the 1950’s without the added outside story’s setting that the short story had. In addition, both stories had a well developed conflict of Jim Smiley being tricked by the stranger through character development and detailed scenes and descriptions. There were, although, some differences in the conflict that I noticed; for one thing, the play only had one conflict and the short story had two. In the play, Jim was tricked by the stranger and was angry about it for a long time. In the short story, it had two conflicts. One with Jim Smiley being tricked and the other one about the narrator trying to learn about Leo Smiley but coming up empty