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Comparison between ¨The Gift of the Magi¨ -

¨ The Necklace¨

  • Feelings: Mathilde is unhappy because she lives in poverty. She is miserable. She envys the rich ones, while Della is not unhappy for herself. She is unhappy because she doesn't have enough money to buy her husband a present for Christmas.

Differences

  • Personalities: the main character Mathilde is an ungrateful woman who seeks riches and admiration. Alternatively, the main character in The Gift of the Magi, Della Young, is compassionate and works very hard to buy her husband a present, selling the one thing that was more precious to her than anything else, her hair.Della loves her husband, and how she thinks it is the best thing in the world to be married to him. Meanwhile, instead of feeling like her husband “won” her heart, Mathilde feels like she settled for him. She doesnt love him too much.
  • Selfishness

-Irony : Both stories present a twist at the end. ¨The Gift of the Magi¨, they sacrificed their possessions in order to get a present but it results to be useless. ¨The Necklace¨, she worked for 10 years to pay for the necklace but it results to worth very little money.

-Surroundings: The authors, through the use of certain imagery, have set the characters in an uncomfortable, drab environment .In ¨The Gift

of the Magi¨: “A furnished flat at $8 per week¨, ¨shabby little couch¨. ¨The Necklace , ¨the poorness of her house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains¨.

  • ¨The Gift of the Magi¨ was written by O´ Henry.
  • ¨The Necklace¨ is a short story by a French author, Guy De Maupassant.

-Pride : The main characters share this characteristic. ¨The Gift of the Magi¨,neither of them is capable of admitting that they don’t have enough money to buy each other presents. ¨The Necklace¨, Mathilde is described as an excessively prideful woman with unrealistic aspirations,which is what dominates her life and makes her so miserable .

  • Similarities :

-Characters: Both stories deal with young, poor couples who face certain trials, and are surprised by an unexpected, ironic twist at the end of the story.

- Theme: love ,sacrifice,hard work. ¨The Gift of the Magi” is about a poor couple who sacrifice their most valuable possessions in order to buy a Christmas present for each other .In ¨The Necklace¨, (another poor couple). Her husband saved money so she could buy a nice dress. By the end of the story they work to pay in full the debt they developed after buying a replacement of the necklace.

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