Poverty In The Gift Of The Magi Analysis

In the world, we have people who are dealing with poverty and then we have the people who are rich. Many people think that rich people have everything , but even though they’re rich rich sometimes they’re just so unhappy. In the story “The Gift of the Magi” by O.

Henry one of the main themes is that “people can be rich in poverty”.

“The Dillingham had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now then the income was shrunk to $20 though, they were thinking seriously of contracting a modest and unassuming D.” (O.5) . By this quote the author is referring to the fact that Della and im are self-conscious about how poor they are. They care too much about what people think about

In reality people who are rich in poverty live in a better harmony than the people who are actually wealthy this has to tell you something , having everything in the world won 't make you have it all, or it might but it will only have you satisfied for a while.

“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetables man and the butcher until one 's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied”. (O.1) By this it means that it 's very difficult for them to save up that much money. Della’s poverty means she has to embarrass herself by being a penny

in the story “the Gift of the Magi” Della and Jim care a bit of materialistic things and don 't at the same time. “it was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design properly proclaiming its value by substances alone and not by meretricious ornamentation as all good things should do. It was even worthy of the watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim 's it was like him. Quietness and value. The description applied to both...grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.(O.19) This quote makes it a bit clear that jim doesn’t care how much the chain was worth what mattered the most to him is the thought that was put into the