What was the difference between the profession of Jimmy and Bob?
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Jimmy and bob to friends and Jimmy was a police officer and bob left New York to earn more profit and be higher in business that an order came to Jimmy that bobs and thief and to arrest him and Jimmy kid, not do that. So he sent a another police man to arrest Bob
In the short story “After Twenty Years,” by O. Henry, we are told that the characters of Jimmy and Bob were, as young men, great friends. They were so close that, as young Bob left New York City to head west and make his fortune, the friends hatched a plan to meet again at the same restaurant in twenty years with the absolute confidence that they both would. And, indeed, they both did.
But, despite this similarity, as middle-aged men they are very different people from one another. Jimmy never left New York City. Nothing, we are told, could have pulled him away. We later learn that Jimmy is a cop, “strong and important,” as O. Henry writes.
We also learn that Bob has been all over the west and that, unlike Jimmy, he’s never made a real home anywhere for long. “I moved around everywhere, and I moved quickly,” he says. Still, Bob’s absolute belief and faith in Jimmy and his goodness never falters, which is a contrast to Jimmy. Although Jimmy has been loyal to Bob in the past, he is now more loyal to the law, and, although he can’t arrest his old friend directly, Jimmy nonetheless finds another cop to arrest Bob, who, we learn at the end of the story, has become a wanted criminal.