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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The Gift of the Magi" is a 1906 short story by O. Henry.A young married couple, Jim and Della, have very little money, but each has one treasure: she has long and beautiful hair, and he owns a valuable heirloom pocketwatch. Desperate to give her man something nice for Christmas, Della sells her hair to a wigmaker to buy a chain for Jim's watch. When she proudly presents it to him, he reveals that he sold the watch to buy a set of combs for her hair.This story has become one of the all-time classic Christmas stories, and with good reason. Also frequently used to teach Dramatic Irony. A popular source for Whole-Plot Reference; see Gift of the Magi Plot. It was set as an opera by American composer David Conte.The original story can be found here. | |
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As the Good Book Says...: The story compares Della and Jim to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba— Biblical figures of wealth — and says that they were richer. This is subtle foreshadowing to the ending, where the "foolish children" are deemed wiser than the Magi, the Ur Examples of Christmas giving. | |
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Always Need What You Gave Up | |
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Always Need What You Gave Up: The Dramatic Irony comes from the fact that Jim gave up his watch and Della gave up her hair without knowing that their sacrifice would make the other's gift useless. | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The couple's dearly-bought gifts are made worthless by the other's sacrifice, but the act of giving them proves that they both loved each other more than their own treasures. The narrator calls them the wisest givers of all (immediately after referring to both of them as "foolish children.") | |
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'20s Bob Haircut: Della styles her new short hair with curls to look as feminine as possible, but she still worries that Jim will think she looks like "a Coney Island chorus girl." | |
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