The Gift of the Magi is a short story about a husband and wife, it details different times and aspects of both of their lives. The story dives into their early marriage, detailing their extreme poverty, even describing how they don't have enough money to fix their mailbox so it has their last name written properly. Irony plays an important in adding a kind of suspense. The suspense is created by the dramatic irony from what the readers know that the characters don't. The specific situation also creates a sort of redundancy. The specific situation is possibly the most important and symbolic in the story is when they buy and then exchange gifts with each other. The dramatic irony is in the fact that when they do this they end up compromising
