Gift Of The Magi Irony

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In the “Gift of the Magi” O. Henry talks about irony and symbolism. Della and Jim are a young couple that don’t have enough money to buy each other gifts for Christmas. Della and Jim do whatever it takes to get each other something. Some of the irony and symbolism that’s in the short story is when Jim bought Della a comb without knowing that she had sold her hair to get money to buy his gift. The watch is something that symbolizes an antique that was important to Jim. There are three different types of irony in the story “The Gift of the Magi” there is foolishness, dramatic, and situational. The irony of foolishness is Jim and Della are young and poor yet infected by the culture of abundance felt during the industrialization and consumerism