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The Gift of the Magi

     by O. Henry

 1 - ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

 2 - There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

 3 - While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the look-out for the mendicancy squad.

 

If The Gift of the Magi were written in 1st person through Jim's eyes, which of these events would he not know and so would not be part of the story?

A. The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it.

B. Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.

C. There was clearly nothing to do but flap down on the shabby little couch and hole. So Della did it.