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Describe The Story "The Gift Of Magi" By O. Henry.

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    The Gift of Magi is a love story of a man and wife. Both loved each other like anything. Della, the wife, saved one dollar eighty seven cents which was not enough to buy a Christmas gift for her husband, Jim. She had long beautiful hair. He had a gold watch which he had inherited from his father. He earned eight dollars a week. He was not financially well-off.

    Even a queen might have felt envious of Della's hair in spite of her jewels and gifts. Jim knew that no king had anything so valuable as his watch. Della with could not buy a gift with1.87 dollars, she hit upon an idea. She had beautiful hair which was long enough to fall below her knee. She put on her old brown coat and old brown hat. She went to a place where she could sell her hair. She got 20 dollars and flew about the shops to buy a gold chain as Christmas gift for her Jim.

    She came home a bit relaxed. She was worried about the loss of hair. She prepared dinner and waited for Jim. He always kept time. He returned home
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    Eisha  

    answered 3 years ago

      In this most-beloved of Christmas tales, a young married couple with little money independently ponders how to provide each other with a holiday gift.
      The husband goes out on the snowy December city streets, looking in windows for inspiration. Finally, he spots the perfect gift: tortoise-shell combs for his wife's long, lustrous hair. But in order to buy them he must sell his watch.
      Meanwhile, the wife searches for a way to get money to buy the husband his gift. Finally, she hits upon the ideal scheme: sell her long hair to a wig-maker. Thus shorn, she now happily buys him a present: a fob for his watch.
      When he comes home from his shopping outing, the husband is shocked to be greeted by his wife with her hair now short. He holds out her gift -- when she unwraps the combs, she bursts into tears. Then she hand him her gift to him, and he is likewise moved by it.
      The couple decides that the moral of their story is that material gifts are not as important as that which is even more precious than the frankincense, myrrh, and gold given to the Christ Child by the Three Kings (Magi) -- that gift is their love for each other.
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      Chispa  

      answered 3 years ago

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