Compare And Contrast The Necklace And The Gift Of The Magi

Does money really make someone happy? Having money could satisfy someone for only a limited time but money can’t give the feelings or emotions that love and affection creates. Within the story, “the Necklace”, the story is about Madame Loisel which is a greedy woman that borrowed an expensive necklace and worked hard to get a new one. In the story, “Gift of the Magi”, it is about a young couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying each other gifts for Christmas with a really low budget. Does money really make someone happy? Money doesn’t make someone happy and within the two short stories it tells about two different couples and about how they’re struggles and how they surpass them and this is why they are happy not because of money

I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on, (O’henry 108). This demonstrates that money doesn’t make happiness because at the end of it all their love was enough. Money doesn’t make happiness in the story, The Necklace. Throughout the story, “The Necklace”, it shows that money doesn’t make happiness by stating, “Loisel explained the horrible life the needy live. She played her part, however, with sudden heroism, (Maupassant 231). Madame Loisel is saying that she has worked hard and gave up her money in a kind of heroic way and that her giving up money gave her the opportunity to learn things that she would never have to do like working two night jobs. The most valuable gift of all is love. Within the story, “Gift of the Magi” , it says another reason why money doesn’t make happiness by stating, “A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them, (O’henry 107). Love is the most valuable gift of all because in the text it talks about the magi bringing valuable gifts and the most valuable gift wasn’t an actual thing but it was actually love and that’s why love is the most important gift of