The theme on "Gift of the Magi" is on a special moral we should all remember. Love is more important than gifts and money. If you have a significant other all you should do is shower them with lots of love and not lust. Della and Jim are a perfect example of this web we all get into when we find the one we love. You feel you should give up what's important to you, so you can buy them something you think they'll adore.
In the story Della doesn't have enogh money to buy Jim something. Day after day, penny after penny she saves up. In the end she's left with one dollar and eighty seven cents. Desperation comes over her and a brutal decision creeps up on her. She hastly goes to a women who's willing to buy Della's beautiful, and knee-length hair for a hefty price of twenty dollars. Her hair is what is important to her, and what makes her the lovely person she is, and what Jim also likes about her.
Jim's greatest possesion is his stunning gold watch. Which happens to belong to his grandfather. Jim loves his wife's cascading brown hair. So he wants to show his love for her with a set of tortise shell combs. He knows Della has been admiring the combs for some time now. So he sells the priceless, family heirloom to buy the lust and not the love.
The moment comes to exchange the precious gifts. Each gift was rapidly thought of. Extremes were made to get the two gifts that signify the lust they both want to show eachother. In the end the gifts were worthless. They gave away their greatest gifts of love, in exchange for consumer material.
So the moral is never let lust, and consumer products get in the way of how you really feel for a person. If you have nothing to offer in the form of gifts, don't sell something that you value such as hair and a watch. Give your greatest gift that doesn't include money or wrapping paper. Give your gift of love, after all it's wrapped up in a neat little package setteled in your heart.
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