<P> On Christmas Eve, with only $1.87 in hand, and desperate to find a gift for Jim, Della sells her hair for $20 to a nearby hairdresser named Madame Sofronie, and eventually finds a platinum pocket watch fob chain for Jim's watch for $21 . Satisfied with the perfect gift for Jim, Della runs home and begins to prepare pork chops for dinner . </P> <P> At 7 o'clock, Della sits at a table near the door, waiting for Jim to come home . Unusually late, Jim walks in and immediately stops short at the sight of Della, who had previously prayed that she was still pretty to Jim . Della then admits to Jim that she sold her hair to buy him his present . Jim gives Della her present--an assortment of combs, useless now that her hair is short . Della then shows Jim the chain she bought for him, to which Jim says he sold his watch to get the money to buy her combs . Although Jim and Della are now left with gifts that neither one can use, they realize how far they are willing to go to show their love for each other, and how priceless their love really is . </P> <P> The story ends with the narrator comparing the pair's mutually sacrificial gifts of love with those of the Biblical Magi . </P> <P> The story has been adapted to films, The Sacrifice (1909), Love's Surprises Are Futile (1916), The Gift of the Magi (1917), a segment of O. Henry's Full House (1952), The Gift of Love (1978), The Gift of the Magi (1958), Dary magów (Poland, 1972), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), I'll not be a gangster, love (Не буду гангстером, дорогая / Nebūsiu gangsteriu, brangioji, USSR, 1978), Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999), The Gift of the Magi (2004) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time . Love, another French movie, based some of its scenes on this story . Raincoat (2004), a Hindi film directed by Rituparno Ghosh is an adaptation of the story . The Greek film directed by Ismene Daskarolis (2014) places it in the economical crisis of Greece today . The Mexican film Nosotros los pobres includes this tale as a small sub-plot . There is also a Bulgarian adaptation known as the short film "Darovete na vlahvite" (2013) directed by Ivan Abadjiev . </P>

Meaning of magi in the story the gift of magi