Where was the story set in "After Twenty

Years?"
The story is set in New York at 10 oclock at night, during the
early twentieth century. The story is set at night. In fact, we
know that it is ten o'clock. Also, it was published in 1906, so
it...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
When did Silky Bob realize that the plain clothes man
was not Jimmy Wells in "After Twenty Years"?
Bob realized that he was not talking to Jimmy when he did not
recognize his nose. This is a story about two friends who made
an agreement when they were young to meet twenty years
later. Both of...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After 20 Years," how does Silky Bob describe his
friend Jimmy to the policeman?
Silky Bob opens his monologue about his friend when a local
police officer questions him. Bob has returned to the location
in the town after being away for twenty years to meet his
friend, Jimmy...
Asked by joyfavorbabson on September 21, 2015 at 10:24
PM via web
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS
How did the setting shape the characters in "After
Twenty Years," a short story?
Another way of looking at how setting shapes the characters in
"After Twenty Years" is to consider O. Henry's creative
imagination. After all, the characters are not real people but
mental...
Asked by user1352745 on September 10, 2015 at 4:56 PM via
web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Examine how O'Henry builds suspense and provides a
twist in the story "After Twenty Years".
OHenry builds the suspense in this story by introducing the
two characters, and then not letting you know who is who right
away. They are two old friends who are meeting after twenty
years, and...
Asked by enotes on September 9, 2015 at 5:53 PM via web
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Why was the place deserted in O. Henry's "After Twenty
Years"?
In After Twenty Years, the place is deserted because of the
inclement weather. The author tells us that, despite it being
only about ten o'clock at night, the wind and the rain have
brought an...
Asked by alokmilton on September 8, 2015 at 3:43 PM via web
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Show that the policeman's impressiveness was habitual
and not for show?
O. Henry does a masterful job of introducing one of the
principal characters, Jimmy Wells, and concealing that
character's identity at the same time. The author explains how
the policeman's...
Asked by user5248893 on September 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM via
web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Do you justify Jimmy's act in the story 'After 20 years'
by O' Henry? yes or no, give reasons?
Hello! 'After Twenty Years' is a short story with an interesting
twist. In the story, Bob is waiting for his friend, Jimmy Wells.
They have not seen each other for twenty years. Years ago,
both...
Asked by nainashah on June 10, 2015 at 5:55 PM via web
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AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Write a thematic analysis of "After Twenty Years" by
O'Henry.
With the theme of "After Twenty Years" as Duty vs. Friendship,
the character of Jimmy Wells finds himself placed in the
difficult situation of having to perform his duty as an officer of
the law on...
Asked by niran on May 25, 2015 at 7:47 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Write a dialogue between Jimmy Wells and the plain
clothes policeman.
While time and distance have not eroded the bonds of
friendship between two men, their vocations in life, ironically,
have acted as the instrument to sever this relationship. Having
promised each...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Identify a character's trait though the dialogue. Give
one example from the story "After Twenty...
The dialogue demonstrates each mans personality traits,
because we learn about their past through what they say, and
we learn what kind of man they are now. Bob and Jimmy were
friends when they...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
"After Twenty Years": Please summarize the story and
include details on the setting, conflict(s),...

"After Twenty Years" is a typical O. Henry story as it has local

color and melodrama and an empathy for ordinary people
along with ironic reversal. The story opens with a New York
City policeman...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What was Bob's criticism of Jimmy in "After Twenty
Years"?
Bobs criticism of Jimmy is that he was not very ambitious or
smart. This story describes how two men agree to meet each
other twenty years after their last meeting as childhood
friends. A lot...
Asked by shyama13 on August 27, 2014 at 2:30 AM via iOS
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Imagine that you are Jimmy Wells, and are disturbed by
the night's events. Write a letter to Bob...
I think that part of a letter that Jimmy would write would focus
on why he had to arrest Bob. The note that Jimmy writes to
Bob when he is arrested would be a starting point as to why
Jimmy would...
Asked by angelicmona on November 24, 2013 at 8:12 PM via
web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Imagine you are Jimmy in "After Twenty Years." Make a
diary entry of your feelings at the thought...
In the composition of a diary entry for Jimmy, the student will
try to enter into the psyche of Jimmy. From the ending of O.
Henry's story in which Jimmy writes to Bob, explaining why he
has not...
Asked by muskan25 on November 12, 2013 at 3:56 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," how do Jimmy and Bob first get
to know each other?
O. Henry does not specify how Jimmy Wells and "Silky" Bob
first got to know each other. But Bob makes it clear to the
police officer (whom he doesn't recognize as Jimmy) that the
two of them grew...
Asked by emilyrevell on November 10, 2013 at 5:26 PM via
web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What should I do if I were in Jimmy's position?
This story involves the kind of situation that must have
occurred thousands of times over the years all over the world.
A cop runs into an old friend who is committing a crime or is
wanted for a...
Asked by Madeline1 on November 5, 2013 at 8:18 AM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Discuss Jimmy's actions in "After Twenty Years" by O.
Henry.
There is a slight weakness in the ending of O. Henry's story.
The reader is expected to admire Jimmy Wells for doing his
duty in having "Silky" Bob arrested. This makes Jimmy seem
like a "staunch"...
Asked by aliafalah93 on November 2, 2013 at 5:01 PM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," what should you do if you were
Jimmy?
It 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...
Asked by aliaf93 on November 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Identify the climax in "After Twenty Years" by O Henry.
The climax in a story is the peak of emotional intensity. In
"After Twenty Years" this peak is reached when Bob and the
arresting officver arrive at the corner drug store which is
brilliantly...
Asked by user8718208 on October 9, 2013 at 11:46 PM via
web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," why do the Chicago police look
for Bob whom they had nicknamed 'Silky'...
O. Henry never states what sorts of illegal activities Silky Bob
has been up to out West or why the Chicago police want to talk
to him. This is evidently because the author wants to mitigate
the...
Asked by ummubadah on September 25, 2013 at 12:03 PM via
web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Why do Bob's hands began to tremble when starts to
read the note in "After Twenty Years"?
As he stands in the doorway, waiting to reunite with an old
friend twenty years after they have last been together, the
man with the diamond cravate pin appears somewhat anxious.
He tells the beat...
Asked by Niyata on September 18, 2013 at 2:58 AM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS

In "After Twenty Years," how must Jimmy have felt

when he realized that his friend Bob had turned...
Jimmy obviously must have had mixed feelings about the
situation in which he found himself. It would have been a
pleasure to see Bob again but painful to realize that he had a
duty to arrest him....
Asked by Niyata on September 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," why do you think Bob's hand
trembled by the time he reached the end of...
This is an interesting question by a keen reader. Bob's hand
obviously trembled because he was experiencing a strong
emotion, or a combination of emotions. O. Henry seems to be
leaving it up to...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," based on his words and
actions, how can the reader describe Bob's...
When the policeman first accosts Bob he "spoke up quickly"
without being asked and tells the officer that he is meeting an
old friend, adding, "I'll explain if you'd like to make certain
it's...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is the unique style of O'Henry's way of writing in
"After Twenty Years"?
One might call this style the use of a twist or a surprise ending.
O'Henry purposefully withholds the information that the
policeman is Jimmy Wells, thus keeping Bob and the reader in
the dark....
Asked by Namitaa on August 19, 2013 at 3:43 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," what does his action tell us
about the character of Jimmy? What is your...
In O. Henry's view, human character doesn't really change
dramatically over the years but only becomes more and more
sharply defined. Silky Bob describes Jimmy Wells to the police
officer, whom he...
Asked by abhilipsa on August 4, 2013 at 10:49 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," describe the man standing in
the doorway.
The man standing in the doorway is the picture of success and
self-confidence. He is not the least bit nervous when
confronted by a uniformed policeman. We do not know that he
is crooked until we...
Asked by nikhileshyadav on July 14, 2013 at 4:17 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What are character sketches of Bob and Jimmy in the
story "After Twenty Years"?
Set at the turn of the twentieth century in New York City, O.
Henry's narrative begins with a policeman walking his regular
beat. Twirling his police stick, he checks the locked doors and
doorways....
Asked by swetas10 on July 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is a description of the man standing in the
doorway of hardware store in O. Henry's "After...
The man standing in the doorway of what used to be 'Big Joe'
Brady's restaurant waits for his friend with whom he has
arranged a meeting. When the policeman on the beat walks up
to him and speaks,...
Asked by user6579668 on July 4, 2013 at 2:05 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is the theme in "After Twenty Years"?
One of the themes in After Twenty Years is that people will
act according to their natures. This story describes two friends
who agree to meet in twenty years. After twenty years, they
both...
Asked by user3621336 on June 20, 2013 at 4:52 PM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," how did Jimmy know that Bob
would be waiting for him?
The policeman, who turns out to be Jimmy, has a conversation
with the man standing in the doorway, who turns out to be
"Silky" Bob. Bob explains to the policeman, and to the reader:
"Well, we...
Asked by user7211380 on June 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," what does this passage mean?
"It takes the West to put a razor edge on him"
O. Henry's ironic story of the twenty year reunion of two old
friends, one of whom went West to make his fortune, depicts
Bob's having come a thousand miles to meet Jimmy Wells back
in New York. As...
Asked by allisunil on May 21, 2013 at 9:56 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years," who is more imaginative, Bob
or Jimmy?
Bob has apparently had the nickname "Silky" Bob since he and
Jimmy were young men over twenty years earlier. The name

"Silky" has at least two connotations. One is that he has a

taste for luxuries...
Asked by user511501 on May 12, 2013 at 9:57 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years" by O.Henry what is the surprise
at the end of the story?
Both the reader and "Silky" Bob are doubly surprised by the
ending of the story. Both believe that the plain clothes
detective who invites Bob to come along and have a drink with
him is Jimmy...
Asked by palshilpi5 on May 8, 2013 at 4:45 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In the story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry do you
think Jimmy Wells' colleague played his role...
"After Twenty Years" is one of O. Henry's shortest stories. It is
remarkably effective for such a compact story. It starts close to
the climax. Bob tells Jimmy, whom he doesn't recognize, that
it...
Asked by katedickens on May 7, 2013 at 7:26 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In "After Twenty Years'" by O. Henry, Bob calls his
friend Jimmy Wells "the finest chap in the...
Bob, of course, does not realize he is talking to Jimmy Wells. If
he had not told him his friend was "the finest chap in the
world" and "the truest, staunchest old chap in the world,"
Jimmy might...
Asked by williampal on May 7, 2013 at 6:54 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
At one point in "After Twenty Years" the narrator calls
this appointment an 'uncertain...
I would have to agree that the appointment is uncertain. As
the narrator describes it; And in the door of the hardware store
the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an
appointment, uncertain...
Asked by palshilpi5 on May 6, 2013 at 1:38 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What kind of mood does O'Henry create in "After
Twenty Years?"
O. Henry has written a moralistic story in which he contrasts
the lives of criminals and law-abiding citizens. The members of
the underworld may seem smarter if they make a lot of money
and avoid...
Asked by user9214368 on May 1, 2013 at 1:36 PM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
How did Jimmy and Bob originally get to know each
other in "After Twenty Years"?
When the policeman approaches Bob that night, Bob realizes
that it might look a little strange to the police officer that he is
standing outside of this closed hardware store. So, he launches
into...
Asked by haifamaryam on April 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
In O. Henry's "After Twenty Years," can you say that
Bob was well off? Give reasons.
O. Henry wanted to show a contrast between the two principal
characters, "Silky Bob" and Jimmy Wells, most of which had
evolved over the twenty years since they had last seen each
other at "Big...
Asked by user4734374 on April 4, 2013 at 11:14 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What are Jimmy's and Bob's beliefs in O. Henry's "After
Twenty Years"?
Jimmy and Bob were friends in their youth because they grew
up together in the same neighborhood in New York. But they
had different characters even then, and their characters led
them down...
Asked by shiva51 on March 22, 2013 at 9:39 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
"After Twenty Years" takes place on a very dark night.
Explain why this is important to the story?
Darkness is important to this story because it hinges on the
fact that "Silky Bob," who is waiting in the darkened doorway
of a hardware store for his old friend Jimmy Wells, does not
realize that...
Asked by shiva51 on March 13, 2013 at 12:48 AM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is the similarity between "After Twenty Years,"
"The Last Leaf," and "Tobin's Palm"? If...
The basic similarity in these three stories by O. Henry is their
surprise endings, which is an O. Henry trademark. In "After
Twenty Years," "Silky" Bob discovers that the policeman he had
been...
Asked by flint1998 on February 10, 2013 at 6:11 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Can you consider the title of the story "After Twenty
Years" by O'Henry an irony?

The title of After Twenty Years is ironic because two old

friends are reuniting after a long time, but they are now on
opposite sides of the law. When Bob sees Jimmy, he does not
recognize...
Asked by fefo92 on November 6, 2012 at 6:32 PM via web
1 educator answer.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What does the title "After Twenty Years" mean?
The title,"After Twenty Years," is at the heart of O. Henry's
narrative. For, two old friends who separated in their youth
have agreed to meet each other in front of their favorite
restaurant....
Asked by fefo92 on November 2, 2012 at 10:27 PM via web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
How is the idea that "twenty year is a long time...it take
sometimes changes a good man into bad...
People change. Twenty years is indeed a long time. It is long
enough for one man to become a cop, while another becomes
a criminal. Bob and Jimmy were old friends who took very
different paths...
Asked by happymoon12 on November 1, 2012 at 9:10 PM via
web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS

Why did Jimmy get Bob arrested in "After Twenty

Years"?
OHenry is a master of irony. The ironic thing about After
Twenty Years is that two good friends agree to meet each
other later, but one is a cop and the other is a criminal. The
cop has...
Asked by melissa199999 on October 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM via
web
2 educator answers.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is Bob's criticism of Jimmy in the short story
"After Twenty Years" by O'Henry?i want it to...
A criticism, according to Webster, is the act of making a
judgment of qualities of comparative worth. Bob is very proud
of himself. He feels that he has been very successful. He
dresses and acts...
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
What is the characterization of Bob and Jimmy Wells in
the story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry?
Jimmy is honest and responsible. This is clear for several
reasons. As a policeman, he is charged with ensuring the
safety of the storefronts on his beat. Although it is rainy and
clearly a...