Q. How does Jimmy Valentine change throughout the story A Retrieved Reformation?
Jimmy Valentine is a hardened criminal who immediately returns to safecracking when he is released from prison; however, after he unexpectedly falls in love, Jimmy changes his behavior and attitudes and becomes an honest businessman. But, later he must return to his former self, although it is only briefly.
Q. What leads you to believe that when Jimmy says Me Why warden I never was in Springfield in my life he is not telling the truth?
What is the resolution of the story? what leads you to believe that when Jimmy says, “Me? Why, warden, I never was in Springfield in my life!” he is not telling the truth? it was an example of foreshadowing, since being a shoe salesman was what was going to give him a new life later in the story.
Q. Why does Jimmy Valentine act a certain way?
Jimmy wants to settle down and give up his life of crime. But ever since he was released from prison, he’s been up to his old tricks, cracking open numerous safes across the Midwest. So if Jimmy’s going to settle down and become a respectable citizen, he’s going to need a whole new identity.
Q. Why did Jimmy Valentine go to the shoe business?
Why does Jimmy Valentine decide to go into the shoe business? He decides to give up crime and needs honest work. He has always liked fancy clothes and stylish shoes. The wards have warned him to stay away from burglary.
Q. Why does Jimmy decide to give up safe cracking?
Why does Jimmy decide to give up safe cracking? A He has found that love and a law abiding life is more satisfying than a life of crime. C Safe cracking does not pay enough.
Q. Which shop did jimmy open?
Jimmy assumed the new name Ralph D. Spencer at Elmore. He opened a shoe-business at Elmore. Jimmy came to know from the clerk of the Planters’ Hotel that there was no exclusive shoe-store at Elmore.
Q. What was the name of Jimmy’s old pal?
This is why he wants his old friend to meet him; Jimmy doesn’t want his tools to get into the wrong hands. Ironically, he doesn’t want other criminals to profit from his tools, only his chosen inheritor (who is presumably a thief as well).
Q. What is the crux of the letter Valentine wrote to his old pal What is your opinion of Valentine after reading the letter?
First, he no longer wants or needs the tools of his old trade. His chief concern is that the tools go to someone he can trust. This is why he wants his old friend to meet him; Jimmy doesn’t want his tools to get into the wrong hands.
Q. How does O’Henry establish a contrast between Jimmy Valentine and Ralph D Spencer?
=> Jimmy Valentine is a notorious burglar, but Ralph D. Jimmy Valentine uses the tools for burglary, but Ralph D. Spencer uses the same tools to rescue the little girl from vault. In fact, love makes Jimmy an honest man.
Q. What was the transformation that Jimmy Valentine underwent at Elmore?
What was the transformation that Jimmy Valentine underwent at Elmore? Ans:-At Elmore, Jimmy Valentine became Ralph Spencer and at the end of a year he had won the respect ofthe community, his store flourished, and he and Annabel were engaged to be married in two weeks.
Q. Why did Jimmy Valentine change his life and become Ralph Spencer?
He chooses to open a shoe store because he has had ten months experience working on shoes in prison. His choice of the name Ralph Spencer is purely arbitrary. It could have been any other alias. He sensed that he was getting too well known in his old territory in Indiana and that vicinity.
