Author:O. Henry / Year: 1862-1910 / Genre: Christmas A short story about how a young married couple, Jim and Della, deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
They have only two possessions between them in which they take pride: Della’s beautiful long, flowing hair, almost to her knees, and Jim’s shiny gold watch,
which had belonged to his father and grandfather. Della sells her hair to a nearby hairdresser, and finds a platinum pocket watch chain for Jim’s watch. Jim,
however, sells his watch, to give Della an assortment of expensive hair accessories, useless now that her hair is short. The story was first published in book
form in the O. Henry’s anthology The Four Million in 1906.
