The Gift Of The Magi Essay

The Gift of the Magi’s analysis “The Gift of the Magi”, by O. Henry, is rewritten in many different forms. There is a Mickey mouse version about a necklace and a harmonica. Most people remember the original version. This story ties different literary devices and plot all together. When the narrator talks and describes the place around them it helps set seen. Then the setting really pushes the fact that they are poor and that the setting helps the narrator. Also the plot is pretty standard, but any other plot structure would not be ok for this story. Then the character development develops the wife and husband's character by indirectly stating what each other like and who they are or act and influences the ending of the story. Then it all …show more content…
Then he would not be able to get across that the story is more centered towards a love story. When the narrator describes where they live in the exposition, the narrator gives us background info like how they are really poor. So when it is revealed that Della is saving up for Christmas, but only has a dollar eighty-six, it drives that they are really poor. This leads to them into the rising action where it is found that Della cuts her hair to get Robert a gift. It is then found that the husband did the same thing together combs for her hair. At the climax, we give to people who are in love. If the author were to put a cliffhanger at the end, it would make no sense. The Narrative point of view plays a huge part in the plot of the story. Since it is in third person limited, we have a really impactful ending because then the husband's gift is more of a surprise . If it was third omniscient, we would know everything. With that said the ending would not have been impactful as it is. The only good thing about the third person omniscient for this story would be more detail. We would get a better description. With that being said, it would work and coexist with the setting, but would not work with the