diary of della in the Christmas eve
(Story the gift of the magi)
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Answer:
On Christmas Eve, Della Young discovers that she has only $1.87 to buy a present for her husband Jim. She visits the nearby shop of a hairdresser, Madame Sofronie, who buys Della's long hair for $20. ... When Jim comes home from work that evening, Della admits to him that she sold her hair to buy him the chain.
Answer:
Della is unhappy because she has been saving money all year to buy her husband Jim a nice Christmas present and has only been able to save one dollar and eighty-seven cents. This is what motivates her to sell her long, beautiful hair, an action from which the remainder of the story unfolds.
Explanation:
Della. ''The Gift of the Magi'' is told from Della's perspective. She is described as slender, but other than that the only information we have about her physical appearance concerns her hair, which would ''fall about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.