Answer:The story opens with $1.87. That's all Della Dillingham Young has to buy a present for her
beloved husband, Jim. And the next day is Christmas. Faced with such a situation, Della
promptly bursts into tears on the couch, which gives the narrator the opportunity to tell us a bit
more about the situation of Jim and Della. The short of it is they live in a shabby flat and they're
poor. But they love each other.
Once Della's recovered herself, she goes to a mirror to let down her hair and examine it. Della's
beautiful, brown, knee-length hair is one of the two great treasures of the poor couple. The other
is Jim's gold watch. Her hair examined, Della puts it back up, sheds a tear, and bundles up to
head out into the cold. She leaves the flat and walks to Madame Sofronie's hair goods shop,
where she sells her hair for twenty bucks. Now she has $21.87 cents.
With her new funds, Della is able to find Jim the perfect present: an elegant platinum watch
chain for his watch. It's $21, and she buys it. Excited by her gift, Della returns home and tries to
make her now-short hair presentable (with a curling iron). She's not convinced Jim will approve,
but she did what she had to do to get him a good present. When she finishes with her hair, she
gets to work preparing coffee and dinner.
Jim arrives at 7pm to find Della waiting by the door and stares fixedly at her, not able to
understand that Della's hair is gone. Della can't understand quite what his reaction means.
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