do you agree with the choice of jimmy wells? why or why not? if you were in his shoes what would you have done
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seems to me that by using the word "should" in your question you are asking, not what would you do, but what should you do if you were in Jimmy's position. It seems to me that, as much as I feel sorry for his friend "Silky" Bob, I think Jimmy did exactly what he should have done under the circumstances. Jimmy could not bring himself to arrest his old friend personally, but he solved that problem by having him arrested by a plain clothes detective. His note to Bob reads in part as follows:
"Somehow I coulldn't do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. JIMMY."
O. Henry probably realized while he was writing the story that there would have to be an unpleasant scene if Jimmy were suddenly to reveal his identity and tell Bob he was under arrest. Naturally Bob would protest and appeal to their old friendship, trying his best to talk Jimmy out of making the arrest. Jimmy would have to appear rather stony-hearted in such a scene, regardless of whether or not he was doing the right thing.