The main content "Maggie's Gift" tells a story about Christmas in a small family of the lower class. Jim, the hero, is a small clerk whose salary is only enough to make ends meet, and Della, the heroine, is a virtuous and kind housewife. Their lives are poor, but Jim and Della both have a very precious treasure. Jim has a gold watch and Della has beautiful waterfall hair. In order to give gifts to each other at Christmas, Jim sold his gold watch and bought a set of pure tortoise shells with jewels on the edge for Della. Della sold her long hair and bought Jim a platinum watch chain. They all gave up their most precious things for each other, and the gifts they got became useless.
The author of The Gift of the Maggie introduces O Henry, formerly known as William Sydney Porter, a famous American critical realist writer and one of the three great short story masters in the world. * * * has written nearly 300 short stories and was once known as "the father of modern American short stories". O Henry is good at describing the lives of ordinary people in American society. His works are novel in conception, often unexpected in plot and humorous in language. Therefore, his works are called "Encyclopedia of American Life Humor". His representative works include the collection of novels "Cabbage and the Emperor", "Four Million" and "The Road to Destiny".
Reflections on Reading Maggie's Gift Today, I read a single article, Reading Maggie's Gift. This article mainly tells that a couple gave up something they liked because they wanted to buy each other a Christmas present. Unfortunately, in the end, their gifts lost their use value, but they all got the most precious gift in the world-true feelings.
I think they are very happy. Although they are poor and live in poverty, money is not important in their hearts. What matters is true feelings. As long as they have it, they will be a hundred times happier than the rich. Some people think that money is everything, but money can't buy true feelings. Maybe money will get you some feelings, but those are hypocritical. When your life becomes tight, when you no longer have money, false feelings will be broken, leaving you with great pain.
I believe that sincere efforts will eventually have sincere returns.