The Gift of the Magi is a story about a poor but devoted couple Jim and Della who sacrificed their best treasures to purchase Christmas gifts for each other.

She had intended to give a surprise present to’ her husband on the eve of Christmas. She had saved one dollar and eighty- seven cents after hard bargaining with the grocer, vegetable man, and the butcher.

She had intended to give a surprise present to’ her husband on the eve of Christmas. She had saved one dollar and eighty- seven cents after hard bargaining with the grocer, vegetable man, and the butcher.

She had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She wanted to buy something nice for him but she couldn’t. Now there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Young in which both took a mighty pride. One way Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s.

The other was Della’s long, beautiful hair, the hair below her knee.

She sold her hair for twenty dollars. She bought a platinum fob chain, simple and chaste in design for 21 dollars.

She hurried home With 87 Cents. With that chain on his watch, Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. 

Jim came home, “Merry Christmas! Jim. Let’s be happy. You don’t know what a nice gift I have got for you ……”.T have my hair cut and sold it because I couldn’t have lived through Christmas without giving you a present” said Della.

Jim presented her beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell with Jewelled rims.

She hugged them to her bosom. Della presented him with a golden chain for his watch.