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The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York.
Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man. She looked away, and brighter color came into her face. Young men like Jimmy did not appear often in Elmore. Jimmy saw a boy near the bank door, and began to ask questions . about the town. After a time the young lady came out and went on her way.
O. Henry specifies that Jimmy Valentine commits a series of safe-cracking crimes right after his release from prison. His previous crimes would have been hard to prove against him. The fresh crimes not only attract the attention of Ben Price, but they would also be easier to connect to Jimmy Valentine, especially if Price could get possession ...
Un guardián entró en el taller de zapatería de la cárcel, donde Jimmy Valentine estaba remendando laboriosamente unos botines, y lo acompañó a la oficina principal. Allí, el alcaide le entregó a Jimmy su indulto, que había sido firmado esa tarde por el gobernador.
O. Henry's short story "A Retrieved Reformation" concerns the fate of Jimmy Valentine, a safecracker who returns to society after he is paroled from prison. Jimmy...
One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his suit-case climbed out of the mail-hack in Elmore, a little town five miles off the railroad down in the black-jack country of Arkansas. Jimmy, looking like an athletic young senior just home from college, went down the board side-walk toward the hotel.
The protagonist of “A Retrieved Reformation,” Jimmy is a safecracker and thief living in the American Midwest in the early 1900s. When first introduced, the well-connected Jimmy is being released from prison after serving just ten months of a four-year sentence for robbery.
