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What "One Dollar and Eighty-Seven Cents" symbolizes?
Highlights the theme of poverty and the desperation it breeds in the face of social expectations.
What "Jim's Gold Watch" symbolizes?
Represents heritage, duty, and status, all of which he relinquishes to provide for his wife.
What Della's Hair symbolizes?
Symbolizes personal beauty and identity, which she is willing to sacrifice for the sake of love.
What "The Platinum Fob Chain" symbolizes?
A simple and chaste design that represents value through substance rather than ornamentation.
Reflects Jim's character (quietness and value) and the irony of selfless giving.
What "The Tortoise Shell Combs" symbolizes?
Symbolizes the tragic irony of their situation—getting what they desired only after the means to use it is gone.
What "the magi" symbolizes?
Wise men who brought gifts to the Christ-child, establishing the tradition of Christmas giving.
Suggests that the truest wisdom lies in sacrificial love and generosity rather than material wealth.