Jimmy's return to his room above Mike's café is an important plot point in the story. One of the things we learn is that there i
s a button belonging to Ben Price on the floor. Why does O. Henry choose to include this detail? O. Henry wants to suggest Ben Price's appearance later in the narrative.
O. Henry wants to remind us to make sure our buttons are sewn on tightly.
O. Henry wants to point out that Mike needs to do a better job of sweeping his café.
O. Henry wants to demonstrate that Mike is observant.
The sentence “Abstain from all appearance of evil” is an imperative statement. These types of sentences usually do not have a subject and their structures consist mainly on the bare verb alone. The main purpose of an imperative statement is to give commands. So, in this sentence, there is no subject and it is commanding somebody to abstain from doing something.
