They went to the same public school. When Bob is first talking to the beat cop, whom he does not recognize, he tells him about their long relationship, including the following: I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two brothers, together.

The main irony in “After Twenty Years” is in the fact that ‘Silky’ Bob has traveled a thousand miles and is standing in the cold waiting to meet his old friend Jimmy Wells–who turns out to be a policeman who has him arrested. This is bitter situational irony.

Community and Home. The central conflict of “The Cop and the Anthem” is the fact that Soapy will die if he is unable to find a home. He is not alone in this conflict, as he is one of the “regular denizens of Madison Square” who must depart every year and find a new place to lay his head.

Soapy’s main goal is to stay out of the elements during the winter season. He also wants three warm meals a day. In past years, his solution to his overriding challenge was to get himself in trouble with the law.

The protagonist of “The Cop and the Anthem,” Soapy is a homeless, street-smart man who is trying to escape the harsh New York City winter by getting arrested and taken to Blackwell’s Island, where he will be given a warm bed.

He stole a man’s umbrella in a cigar store, but the man wouldn’t call the cop who was standing right nearby because the supposed owner of the umbrella had evidently stolen it himself. I suppose you could say that there were only five attempts to get arrested if you don’t count the first episode as a crime.

Soapy also tries to harrass a virtuous-looking woman, only to find her actually desirous of his attentions, and he throws a brick through a window, but the police will not consider him a suspect because of his cultured demeanor. All in all, Soapy is a comical character, homeless, smart, and bumbling.

The cop did not suspect him to be an evil-doer because he stood still. Explanation: The author was a homeless man and was looking for a place to live. He decided to wrong deed so that the police will arrest him.

Answer: The cop did not consider that Soapy could have broken the window of the shop. He did not consider him because men who broke windows would not stop to talk to cops. The cop then saw a man further along the street, running, and he ran after him, thinking that he was the culprit.

What was Mr Gessler’s complaint against “big firms”? Answer: Mr Gessler complained that the big firms were making money through attracting customers by advertisements. They were not earning because of the quality of their work but because of the marketing.