Comparing The Gift Of The Magi In Lather And Nothing Else

Often in literary works, authors choose a physical object which takes on a special significance in the work and becomes a symbol of something beyond itself. In the stories, The gift of the magi by O. Henry and Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Tellez, the objects they possessed represented the choice they made and that represents who they are. In The gift of the magi, Jim and Della have their most prized possessions a watch and some hair and In Lather and nothing else, The barber has his razor.What the characters had represented their choices which reveals their personalities. In the gift of the magi, Jim and Della are a married couple who didn’t have much because they were in poverty but both had something that they took pride in. Jim and Della are a couple who are very poor and they gave away their most prized possessions for each other. Jim had a watch which belonged to both his father and his grandfather and now was his and Della had her hair which unique and beautiful. It was a christmas morning, Della wanted to get jim a present but didn’t have the money to do so. She really …show more content…
The sheriff that was sent to hunt him and the others came to his barber shop and asked for a save. The barber had his razor and when he wanted to cut the sheriffs but kept struggling to do so and he didn’t the sheriff at the end. In the story, the barber says that “ The pores might open, minutely, in this area and let out a tiny drop of blood. A good barber like myself stakes his reputation on not permitting that to happen to any of his customers.”. This shows that the barber was a good enough man that even though that his customer the sheriff could kill him he knew it was not good to try and cut him up. The razor symbolized his right set of mind when it was ascending and descending while with the