Analysis Of Jimmy Valentine A Retrieved Reformation By O Henry

Jimmy Valentine, an awfully arrogant, but charismatic, criminal, was featured in O. Henry’s short story “A Retrieved Reformation”. During the late 1800s, Elmore, Arkansas became an area with many mysterious happenings. Following a brief, ten month period of imprisonment, the evasive fugitive, Jimmy Valentine, was released. Moments after his release, the anti-hero immediately returned home to attain a suitcase possessing his own novelties of safe-cracking tools. A week after receiving the pardon slip, Jimmy continued his criminal acts and robbed a bank in Indiana. Additionally, shortly after this robbery, he successfully stole five thousand dollars from a bank in Jefferson City. As a result of these two robberies, Ben Price, a perceptive and