Hair And Jim's Watch: A Symbol Of Sacrifice

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Della's hair and Jim's watch are symbols of sacrifice. This is because they both gave them up in order to give each other a Christmas present. The reason they need to give each other a present is because they want to show how much they love each other. However, the presents turn out to be useless, because you need hair for combs and a watch for a chain. The reason they needed to give away some of their material possessions was that they were poor. You can tell this fact because in the story it states that Jim is paid only 20 dollars a week, which he uses to support himself and Della. Obviously, you can't be rich if you have to support two people with only 20 dollars. So, when Della looked in the looking glass, she realized that in order