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Love And Sacrifice

O. Henry and F. Scott Fitzgerald are two contemporary American writers. Each has written about love story which they had known or experienced. The " The gift of the Magi" by O. Henry speaks about the poor life of the young couple and the desire of buying a gift for each other; F. Scott's work "The Sensible Thing" also focuses on the love story of two young people, but they lost love at the end. Two these works, they both share similar subject and each gives us, the readers, the different emotion about love and sacrifice, joys and sorrows.

The main characters in both works are poor. In "the gift of the magi", Della and Jim live in "the shabby little couch" and "one dollar and ...

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cycle. For Jim, he has a job, his salary is still not high $30 per week though. In the same way, Scott's character is also not much richer than Porter's. George lives in a shabby room with his property under $100 and he had to give up his dream which is from a construction engineer to become an insurance clerk at forty dollar a week. The author portrays "George O'Kelly was so new to poverty that has any one denied the uniqueness of his case he would have been astounded".

The first difference is that the difficult situation force them to have dissimilar choices. Love is a choice to do what is best for another person. If you love someone, you will choose to be patient with them or you will choose to treat them well or sacrifice what you have to make your lover happy. This is the choice of Della and Jim in "The Gift of The Magi", they do not hesitate to sacrifice voluntarily their best valuable thing so that they can have a significant gift for Christmas. Jim and Della are ...

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Added: 12/11/2013 08:56:20 PM
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