Major Elements of Short Story:
1) Plot
-introduction: The introduction is where the characters and the setting is revealed. In this story, it is 6 o'clock and there is a little evening sun which means the story probably takes place in the summer. The character is also most likely in a hotel because he had just bought himself a beer and was sitting in a deck chair by the swimming pool.
-conflict (man vs man/man vs himself) (internal/external): The conflict is Man vs. Man, the little Spanish or Italian man vs. The American Sailor boy. Their 
-rising action: The rising action was when they made the bet but the Sailor didn't want to bet his pinky finger. Then, the Sailor boy started having second thoughts about the bet because he was pretty confident about his lighter. "it was obvious that a small tension was beginning to build up inside him"
-climax: The climax was during the bet when he was lighting the lighter and there was a lot of anxiety and nervousness for whether or not the lighter would light ten times.
No one else said anything. The boy kept his eyes on the lighter. The little man held the chipper up in the air and he too was watching the lighter.

"Three!"

"Four!"

"Five!"

"Six!"
-falling action: The falling action was when the woman opened the door to the room and stopped Carlos, the old man, from chopping off the Sailor's finger or giving away her car.
 "I said it the door opened. We all turned and we saw a woman standing in the doorway, a small, black-haired woman, rather old, who stood there for about two seconds then rushed forward shouting, 'Carlos! Carlos!'"
-denouement:
-conclusion:
2) Character
- protagonist (main character): The protagonist would be 
- antagonist (force opposing the main character): The antagonist was the old South American man with a Spanish or Italian accent named Carlos because he really wanted to do the bet and he kept taunting the Sailor so he would finally accept the bet.
-static (remains the same): The British girl that the Sailor was trying to impress didn't really change. She just always thought the bet was stupid.
-round (complex with many characteristics)
- flat (single or simple characteristics): The narrator is a flat character because the only things we know about him is that he isn't American.
- stock character (stereotype): Carlos, the antagonist, could be considered a stereotypical character because he is a typical South American gang leader type. He wears a Panama hat with a white suit and smokes cigars and is very strange and small.
- dynamic (changes throughout): The American Sailor starts off as a confident American trying to impress
3) Setting
-atmosphere:
-time: About 6 o'clock in the evening
- place: At a hotel
4) Theme: Suspense because you don't know why the man wants the Sailor's finger. It makes you feel nervous and anxious 
5) Point of View: First person
6) Foreshadowing: "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."