The theme of the story"Gift of Magi," is a story about a couple Della and Jim, who are struggling to make money, and Christmas was coming up. Della wanted to buy Jim a special gift that he would love.But the problem was she only had $1.87 cents, not enough to buy a gift.So she was thinking of ways to make money.
They both had prized possessions. Della had her beautiful long hair and Jim has his gold watch. For a while now Della wanted combs for her hair. But she also wanted the perfect gift for Jim buy kept on remembering she didn't have money and was running out of time. So she deiced to do something extreme.
So after all this was happening she deiced to shave her hair of for $20.00 dollars. After she got the money she ran of and got Jim present which was a platinum chain to go with his watch, but at the same thing she was wondering how he would feel about her shaving her hair and wondering if he would still love her. So she waited.
While she waited she would look in the mirror for long periods of time hoping Jim would still love her and not be upset. trying to fix the damages she took out hair curlers and tryed to look better. So she just waited for Jim to come home and was worried.
Before she knew it she was face to face with Jim. Jim just stood there wondering what had happened. Hoping Jim wouldn't mad she started to explain that she wanted to buy him a gift but didn't have the money so she shaved her hair of. Then she gave him the gift he opened it then sat down. she asked what happened and he told her he had sold his watch to buy her, her combs and then she just sat there and wondered. So the the theme was not to ever let money come between your love.
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