"That's Jim Valentine's autograph. He's resumed business."----What was Jim Valentine's business? Write a paragraph on the several encounters between Jim Valentine and Ben Price.
Answers
The excerpt is from the story, "A Retrieved Reformation", by O. Henry. Jim Valentine was a robber and safe breaker. Ben Price was a detective who had once arrested Jimmy Valentine, got him convicted and imprisoned.
After coming out of the prison, Jimmy again meets Ben Price at a bank in Elmore, Arkansas but comes to see that he was reformed due to his love for the banker's daughter, Annabel Adams and so Ben let him go.
Explanation:
The A Retrieved Reformation quotes below are all either spoken by Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer or refer to Jimmy Valentine/Ralph D. Spencer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Love and Redemption Theme Icon). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Modern Library edition of A Retrieved Reformation published in 1994.
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