Question
The Gift of the Magi
What is one of the ways O.
by O. Henny
Henry sets
up the irony for the end of his
story?
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
A. He tells about the mailbox and how it
won't work. Then he tells about the shabby
silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied
Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
Couch.
And the next day would be Christmas.
B. He makes them seem poor and foolish,
then he says they are wisest and richest
because of their love.
2- There was clearly nothing 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
C. He tells how Della is pretty and Jim is
steady and nice, and they work together.
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 lookout for the mendicancy squad
the authorities who deal with beggars]
4- In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter
would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could
coax a ring Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the
name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
5- The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former
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Answer
B. He makes them seem poor and foolish, then he says they are wisest and richest because of their love.