But that look on her face quickly changes when she sees herself in the mirror with her gorgeously long hair. Della Young needs to buy a gift for Jim Young for the Christmas but she has only one dollar and eighty seven cents because of which she is very sad which can be seen in the lines “She stood by the window and looked out with no interest” which is a symbol of looking into their poverty stricken lives with no hope and enthusiasm. Though they were living in poverty their love was deep for each other. The symbol of “a letter-box too small to hold a letter”, “an electric bell, but it could not make a sound” make it evidently clear that Jim and Della young were living in poverty. Henry provides us with enough symbols to make it evident. We find the symbolic meanings of the gifts given by Jim Young and Della Young to each other at the end as the story progresses.Īs the story begins we can clearly see that the couple (Jim and Della Young) live in poverty as O. The gift of gold represents earthly kingmanship, frankincense represents the symbol of godliness and myrrh represents the symbol of death. Though the gifts being simple in nature their carried a spiritual meaning rather than a material one. The title of the story”The Gift of Magi” is symbolic to the biblical reference to the three wise men or magi, who were present at the birth of baby Jesus so they could give their gifts of Gold, Frankincense and myrrh to the Baby Jesus.
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