The Irony In The Gift Of The Magi

What if you got rid of your prize possession to buy your loved one a gift, but they ended up selling their possession that your gift was for. Man talk about irony. The “Gift of the Magi” is a story that shows a lot of irony. In the story a woman buys a gift for her husband but she had to sell her hair to get the gift. She bought a gift for her husbands watch and her husband had to sell his watch to buy something for her hair. The theme of the story would be, if one is poor, they may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to make their loved one happy. A good relationship could have love, the narrator’s relationship shows a lot of love. The narrator first shows her relationship is strong when she decides to cut off her hair. Her husband walked in and stared at her with shock as he saw her with no hair and she replied with, …show more content…
She thought of about how she would be able to get her husband a gift and she thought to cut her hair for money. The narrator was gonna get money and she showed the cutting lady her hair, ”Down rippled the brown cascade,” and she was offered twenty dollars. She thought out the idea that if she sold her hair then she would be able to buy her husband a gift. She thought this plan out with love, like how she acted. Her husband also showed the same sign of planning. He gave his gift to the narrator, “For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window.” He thought out a plan as well as the narrator. It showed love through selling his watch for money so she could buy the narrator a gift. The “Gift of the Magi” shows the theme that to make the ultimate sacrifice, may end up making your loved one happy. This story is like “Rapunzel” because in “Rapunzel” the main character has long beautiful hair and it gets cut off, and in the “Gift of the Magi” the narrator has long beautiful hair too until it gets cut off as