Pls help me write the character sketch of Jim and Della in the story "The Gift Of Magi".
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Della is a loving wife. She is beautiful and her hair is a prized possession. She is frugal and saves every penny she can when buying groceries. She desires to please her husband...
She lets down her long, beautiful hair for one last look before she sells it to buy Jim a platinum chain for his valuable gold watch, the watch given to him by his father and grandfather.
Every day when Jim comes home, Della lovingly greets him with a a great big hug:
But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
Clearly, Della is a loving wife. She cooks delicious meals for him. She does everything she can to make him happy.
Now, it is Christmas and she has very little money to buy Jim a present. She loves him so much until she sells her long, beautiful hair for 20 dollars....
Della is sitting anxiously by the door when Jim comes in. On the stove, the frying-pan is hot, ready to cook the chops. Della is quite organized and efficient as a homemaker.
We know very little about Jim. He only appears towards the end of the story and is not given any physical description, although we can assume that he is young and good-looking enough to make Della love him. The fact that he has been carrying a gold pocket watch suggests that he works in an office and wears a suit and necktie. He is not doing very well in the world of commerce. He had been earning thirty dollars a week, but now he is only earning twenty dollars a week. A young man should be getting raises and promotions, but Jim seems to be moving down the ladder instead of up. This suggests that he is either not very ambitious or not very talented. He shouldn't have to be selling his gold pocket-watch in order to buy his wife a modest Christmas present. And she shouldn't have to be selling her precious hair to buy him a watch-chain. Della thinks that the chain she buys for her husband is like him and like his gold watch: it has "quietness and value." Maybe he is a little too quiet. He may be the kind of man who just does his job conscientiously and never gets noticed or appreciated by his superiors. The fact that he sells his treasured watch shows that he is a loving husband. We suspect that these two people have not been married long. They are still in the honeymoon stage of marriage. Della will get tired of wearing old clothes and pinching pennies. Jim will get tired of his dead-end job. Then they could easily get tired of each other.
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