Summary:

"The Gift of the Magi" is about a girl named Della who is in love with a man named Jim. She only has one dollar and eighty three cents to buy him a Christmas present. So she goes and cuts her hair and sells it, getting twenty dollars for Della to buy Jim a watch holder. When he came home from work he saw that she cut her hair. She thought he would have thought she was ugly and hate her, she explain why she cut her hair then realizes he bought her a package of combs. In the end he sold his watch in order to buy the combs for Della and she gives him the watch holder. In the end of the story, it explains that a "magi" is something wise so it shows how the couple sacrificed everything for each other.