Females In O.Henry’s Stories

Females In O.Henry’s Stories When talking about American short stories, we must think of O.Henry the first time around. I’ve known him as one of the three Kings of short stories of the world since I was in middle school but it is only till today that I get a deeper perception of his work. There is no doubt that the brightest spot in his stories is the O.Henry Ending which totally reverses the story and surprises readers and his special affection toward ordinary people is commendable as well. A man called Ward McAllister asserted that “There were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing”. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'" To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. In his over three hundred short stories and one novel, he describes various people from different classes and positions with humor so his stories are praised as Humorous Encyclopedia Of American Life. In this “encyclopedia” there must be females who are beautiful, ugly, coward or brave. It’s worthy analysising female roles in O.Henry’s stories. Victim Of Love In one of his most famous stories The Gife of the Magi, Della and Jim both sell their precious treasure to buy Christmas gift for the other one. Though the gifts seem useless, their love and care for each other is the best Christmas gift. The story follows Della saving every penny for a Christmas gift and selling her beautiful long hair to buy the platinum fob chain she has longed for a long time. The detailed description of her mind shapes a vivid, full and lovely young housewife who has the purest beauty of humanity and can realize the true essence of life that “life is made up of sobs, sniffles,and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” But she also has her own limitaions. When facing the plight of eighty-seven cents, instead of looking for solution, she firstly