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The gift of he Magi

 

            
             Many people make sacrifices for others to let them know just how much that person means to them, to let them know they are really loved. It is such sacrifices that are held near and dear to a person's heart if recognized for what they are. This holds true in one particular piece of literature. That particular piece of literature would be the short story ofThe Gift of the Magi,? written by William Sydney Porter, better known in the literary world as O. Henry. This famous story talks about a young married couple, each of whom sells a cherished belonging to obtain money to buy a Christmas present for the other. It is a type story from which one can learn a lesson.
             The conflict of the story is introduced at the very beginning of the story. Della frantically attempts to find a way to get her husband a gift for the next day, which happens to be Christmas. With a dollar and eighty-seven cents she finds it quite difficult to do so. It is not as if she had not made an effort to save up some money for the occasion and is now suddenly panicking at the realization that she has no money. In fact that dollar and eighty-seven cents was saved up a couple of cents at a timeby bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheek burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.? Her only option to get enough money to get Jim 'something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned? by him was to cut off and sell her hair to a local hair shop. With the money she receives from that, she finds the perfect gift when after a search through almost every store in town when she finally finds a fob for that seems to be made especially for Jim's gold watch. When Jim returns home from work that night he is stun by the new look of his wife but not for the reasons she suspects. He is stunned by his wife's new haircut because the gift he had purchased for her was a set of jeweled tortoise shell combs, which she had been eyeing for a long period of time.


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