Separation Affecting A Friendship In After Twenty Years

In this short story "After Twenty Years", the author gives the message of how separation can affect a friendship, no matter if the separation be short or long. By the end of the story, the main character "Bob" ends up being recognized as a criminal wanted in Chicago and the officer from the beginning of the story turned out to be Jimmy Wells, who ends up having a plain clothes officer turn Bob in to the police station. A twenty-year separation like that would certainly cause an ending of that sort, or any ending heading into a bad direction. A long separation period would obviously cause some sort of shift in the friendship. The direction in which the shift can occur usually has a positive or negative effect. In one hand, the positive direction