Short story elements

Major Elements of Short Story:
1) Plot 
-introduction : Is a man on vacation, relaxing by the pool in his hotel in Jamaica.
-conflict : There are both types of conflict in this short story. There is man vs man. Man vs man is when the sailor literally goes against Carlos. But also it is man vs himself because the sailor has to think a lot to himself and see if losing his left pinky is really worth possibly winning a cadillac.   
-rising action : This is when the sailor first hears the south american  mans proposal and is ridiculed by it. 
-climax : The climax is at the point where the american sailor is with his hand on the table and starts lighting the lighter and starts counting to ten. 
-falling action : Is when the lady bursts into the room and pushes Carlos into the bedroom. 
-denouement : Is when the lady comes in to the room and stops carlos from continuing the bet with the sailor  then grabs the keys to the cadillac and at that moment everyone sees she was missing most of her fingers.
2) Characters
- protagonist : The protagonist is the american sailor because he is facing the antagonist,  who is  the man from south america.
- antagonist : Carlos ( The south american man ) is the antagonist because he is going against the sailor and because he was the one who made the bet in the first place. 
-static : The only static character is the young British girl, that the sailor was with at the pool. She gave her opinion on the bet and said it was stupid so she never really changed. 
-round : A complex character that changes a lot during the story would be the American sailor. Because he at first comes off as this cool, calm and not scared at all when the man explains the details of the bet, but as the night goes on he starts drinking martinis too take the edge off the nerves, because he is so scared and nervous and actually going through with the bet. 
- flat : The flat character in this short story is the narrator, the readers never knew his name or any background information but he did not do much other than give his opinion on the bet and he pretty much stayed the same throughout the story.
- stock character : The only stereotype like character would be Carlos because at first you see him in a fine white suit, smoking a cigar so you'd think he is a man full of class and very wealthy. But in the end you realize he is a poor disturbing man. 
- dynamic: Same as  the round character.
3) Setting : The setting of the story is in a hotel in Jamaica. During the evening.
-time : At the beginning of the story it says it was almost 6 o'clock so late afternoon, early evening.
- place : The place is in the hotel, first on the pool deck, then in the South American mans room.
4) Theme : The theme of this short story is suspense because, it is the right balance because it is not scary but it is also not a happy comedy. There is suspense that has been built up by the tension and the creepiness of the whole story.
5) Point of View
-first person : The narrator is the one who tells the story, he is the man we first read about. He is narrating the story through his eyes. 
-third person : There  is no third person point of view in this story.
6) Foreshadowing: The lines in the story that show foreshadowing are when the narrator says : " I must say I didn't much like the way he was behaving. It seemed he was already trying to make something out of this, and to embarrass the boy, and at the same time I had the feeling he was relishing a private little secret all his own."