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Wacky Weaknesses In The Gift Of The Magi And The Necklace
Wacky Weaknesses Every person has different characteristics and their flaws can overall affect how they develop as a person. Strengths and weaknesses can help shape how they react to a situation. Their reactions can determine how major events will play out in their future. In “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Necklace”, Della and Madame Loisel’s weaknesses are very different, but they shaped how the character developed. In “The Gift of the Magi”, Della is extremely Naive. She believed that selling her hair would make her husband, Jim happy. In the article it says, “Cut it off and sold it” said Della. “Don’t you like me now?” (O’Henry 5). Della sold her hair so that she could make Jim happy by getting him a chain for his pocket watch. Jim
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