Story: "The Gift of the Magi"

A young wife, alone most days in her apartment in New York City, worries and worries about giving her struggling husband a loving and helpful and luxurious Christmas gift, because she only has $1.87 saved by scrimping. She finds a way to raise more funds, and presents a luxury item to her husband. The final sequence is the classic O. Henry "twist ending" -- an unexpected occurrence intensifies the moral of the story.