"Gift of Magi"
It's Christmas Eve, and Della winds up coming up short on time to purchase Jim a Christmas exhibit. In the wake of paying the majority of the bills, all Della has left is $1.87 to put toward Jim's Christmas show. Frantic to discover him the ideal blessing, out she goes into the frosty December day, looking in shop windows for something she can manage.
She needs to purchase Jim a chain for his pocket watch, however they're hard and fast of her value extend. Surging home, Della pulls down her delightful hair and stands before the mirror, respecting it and considering. After a sudden motivation, she surges out again and has her hair style to offer. Della gets $20.00 for offering her hair, sufficiently only to purchase the platinum chain she found in a shop window for $21.00.
At the point when Jim returns home from work, he gazes at Della, endeavoring to make sense of what's distinctive about her. She concedes that she sold her hair to purchase his present. Before she can offer it to him, nonetheless, Jim calmly hauls a bundle out of his jacket pocket and hands it to her. Inside, Della finds a couple of exorbitant brightening hair brushes that she'd since a long time ago appreciated, yet are presently totally pointless since she's remove her hair. Concealing her destroys, she hops and holds out her present for Jim: the watch chain. Jim shrugs, flounders down onto the old couch, puts his hands behind his head and tells Della straight that he sold his watch to get her brushes.
The story closes with a correlation of Jim and Della's presents to the presents that the Magi, or three astute men, provided for Child Jesus in the trough in the scriptural story of Christmas. The storyteller reasons that Jim and Della are far savvier than the Magi on the grounds that their endowments are blessings of adoration, and the individuals who give out of affection and generosity are genuinely savvy since they know the estimation of self-giving affection.