Why did a tear or two splash on the carpet?
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it is wet and carpet absorbs the tears
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The Gift of the Magi by O Henry is story about a selfless couple Della and Jim, who knew the true meaning of Christmas, who wants to buy a gift for each other since Christmas was approaching. Each of them sacrifice the most precious things that they have in order to buy gift for their spouse. Della sacrifices her hair only to know that Jim had got her hair combs for her and Jim sold his precious watch only to later know that Della had bought him a chain for his watch
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- Della is described as slender pretty women who had such a long hair, that it would fall on her -rippling and shining like cascade of brown waters. She loves her husband Jim dearly and thinks the world of him.
- She does not blame him for his small earnings, although it has dropped from 30 dollars per week to 20 dollars per week. Rather she feels that her husband deserved the very best to be ' a little bit near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim'.
- When she falls into a crying fit, it is not in sadness for their poor situations . It is not for self-pity. It is because she had only has 1.87 dollar to buy her husband Jim a present for Christmas, and she could not find anything quite nice enough with that small amount of money that she had.
- When she realises she could sell her hair to get more money to buy her husband Jim a nice gift, she only allows 'a tear or two' to splash 'on the worn red carpet'. Which means she did not get overly emotional or cry too much for the fact that she planned to sell her hair and just shed a drop of tear or two. After happily finding a present for Jim, Della does not fret over her hair for herself. She only worries as to what Jim would think.
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