As the story begins the narrator is explaining how a young woman, Della has only $1.87 for her husband, Jim's Christmas gift. While she is putting herself through misery and guilt she figures to sell something of her's worth something. She decides to sell her hair.
She sells her hair at a local beauty salon for $20. She searches throughout the entire town for hours and turns it inside out. At last she finds him the perfect gift. A platinnum fob chain for his most prized possession; his gold watch he inherited from his father.
When Della gets home she panics and worries of what jim will think of her hair. Ina hurried frenzy she curls her hair in hopes to trick her husband so that he won't notice. After the preparations she starts dinner.
When Jim comes home he seems a confused mess. It appears like his head is somewhere else as Della is explaining the short hair. When jim finally zones in Della explains the story again and jim presents her with a gift; the set of brushes and combs she had been adoring for weeks. In turn Della gives him her gift, the fob chain. upon receiving this Jim explains that he sold the watch to afford the combs.
At the end of the story the narrator tells about the wise men. They were the ones who started christmas gift giving. Their gifts, like Della's and Jim's, were wise ones. This was Gift of the Magi.
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