Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi."Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
Read the story.Anna asked her mother if she could drive the car to the store herself.Anna’s mom said, "Sure, ten-year-olds drive themselves to the store all the time!”
At the end of "The Gift of the Magi," Jim says that he and Della should forget their gifts for a while and eat supper. This suggests the theme
Read the story.Sam was home one night when the lights went out during a thunderstorm. He was looking in the kitchen closet for a flashlight to help him see, but it was hard to find the flashlight in the dark without using a flashlight! His circumstances struck Sam as pretty funny.
Read this character description from "The Gift of the Magi."Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present.
In "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry most likely uses the irony of the couple’s gifts to express the theme that
beauty disappearslove is a distractionbeauty is a priceless treasurelove outweighs physical attraction
moral judgment of a charactergeneral subject matterobservation about lifepoint of view on a difficult topic
In "The Gift of the Magi," when Jim buys combs for Della, the irony is that
What inferences about Della can be made based on this excerpt? Select three options.
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