One is because he is apparently a smooth talker, as he demonstrates when he encounters the cop while he is standing in the hardware-store doorway. Bob is slick. He is like silk. However, Jimmy is a less daring and more strictly moral character, whose personal feelings are overridden by his sense of public duty.
Explanation: Jimmy Wells Patrolman Wells is a loyal and trustworthy friend. The difference is the two paths that each took over their lives. Bob became a thief while Jimmy led a more honorable life.
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 after twenty years with the absolute confidence that they both would. And indeed, they both did. Perhaps that is because he has had so much more worldly experience than his friend. But Bob would be thirty-eight and Jimmy would be forty. The real Jimmy Wells in the story was the policeman. We know that because of the note that was handed to Bob where the policeman tells him that he saw his face when he struck a match, and realising he was wanted criminal but not having the heart to arrest him himself, he had sent a plainclothes man to do so.
Bob is a criminal with head square-jawed face, keen eyes and a little white scar near his right eyebrows whereas Jimmy is a cop with stalwart form and slight swagger. Although Bob traveled a hundred miles to meet his friend, Jimmy did what was right and arrested him. Bob learns from the letter that the police officer whom he met earlier was Jimmy, his old friend. Since Bob is a criminal wanted by the Police, Jimmy Wells does not want to arrest his intimate friend.
So he has sent another police officer to do the work. But he is a true friend. Jimmy Wells Patrolman Wells is a loyal and trustworthy friend. Bob has only been superficially more successful than Jimmy.
From that point on, there is no exchange of names. Bob speaks of Jimmy Wells, but he does not know he is talking to Jimmy Wells. The plainclothes detective only knows the name because Jimmy Wells has told it to him. Henry could not have had Jimmy addressing Bob by name because Jimmy was pretending he didn't know him. Bob would have had no reason to introduce himself by name to a strange cop unless asked to show some form of identification.
Both Jimmy Wells and Bob's identities are unknown to the reader until near the end of the story, which is O. Henry's intention because he wants a surprise ending. Bob probably got the nickname 'Silky' Bob for two reasons. One is because he is apparently a smooth talker, as he demonstrates when he encounters the cop while he is standing in the hardware-store doorway. Bob is slick. He is like silk. Another reason is that Bob has a taste for luxuries, as demonstrated by the diamond scarf-pin he is wearing and his diamond- studded pocket watch.
He probably also favors silk clothing. This would easily get him the nickname 'Silky' Bob in underworld circles. Crooks generally go only by their first names or a nickname to avoid being caught. The word 'Silky' appears only once. The plainclothes detective has to show that he knows the man he is arresting.
He has to make a positive I. In the story After Twenty Years,the note tells us that Jimmy and Bob were very close friends and it was their bond which made it difficult for Jimmy to arrest Bob. Tir 22, AP. Answer: Bob shared that: that 20 years ago they were best friends and there was a restaurant where they had their dinner and decided to meet at the same place and same time after 20 years,no matter where they would be, the will come to meet each other; Shahrivar 22, AP.
Explanation: Jimmy was dedicated to New York and had no intention of leaving. Mordad 20, AP. Jimmy and Bob are close friends. Jimmy is an honest police officer. When he comes to know that his friend is a criminal, he does not have the courage to arrest him himself. He sends another policeman to arrest Bob. Khordad 29, AP. According to the opening sentences of the story, Jimmy is not there to keep the appointment but to patrol his beat, trying all the doors along the way to make sure they are locked.
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