Choose an adjective to describe della and jim (use text evidence)
-the gift of the magi by o. henry
One dollar and eighty–seven cents. That was all. Three times Della counted it. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from sobs to sniffles, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. There was a card bearing the name “Mr. James Dillingham Young.”
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something fine and rare for him.
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. The other was Della’s hair.
So now Della’s beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. then she put it back up .
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.
Where she stopped the sign read: “Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds.” One flight up Della ran.
“Madame, Will you buy my hair?” asked Della. She took off her hat and down rippled the brown cascade.
“Let me see,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand. “Hmm. Twenty dollars.”
Della took the money quick. Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.
She found it at last. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim’s. It was like him. Quietness and value — the description applied to both.
After that, when he came home he was shocked at her hair being gone so she was saying things like "im still myself with my hair arent i?" but the reason why he was shook was because he bought her a clip for her hair that she had always wanted....the end