Now the Narrator’s friend from the East is the first antagonist because he sent him to Simon Wheeler as a joke. The friend from the East knew that Simon would talk his ears off. The second protagonist in the story is good ol’ Jim Smiley. He is a good man that has nothing but time and love to give to his pets. The second antagonist in the story is the stranger who comes to jim Smiley’s town. When it is time for the frog jumping competition the stranger clearly cheats when Jim is away by putting Birdshot in Dan’l Webster’s mouth so he couldn’t jump. He cheated Jim Smiley out of 40 Dollars.