The short hair however turn out to be a shock for Jim who gets beautiful studded combs for Della to caress her long tresses with the money received after selling his ancestral pocket watch. She cuts her hair short to gain an additional twenty dollars to her savings consisting of one dollar and eighty seven cents and at last buys a gold watch chain. But the monetary crunch tears apart her aspirations and drives her to sell the most valuable possession a woman could possibly own i.e. Della and Jim love and care for each other and so the wife is adamant to gift her husband a memorable token of that love. This is a short and sweet story about Youngs, a married couple experiencing adverse economic crisis during the festive period of Christmas.
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