What is it called when you sell something of your own to buy someone else a gift for something they have. But they sold the thing that your gift was for, to buy you something for the thing you sold to buy their present?
2007-11-30 12:33:24 · 4 answers · asked by kkeyz42 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
It's by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) and it's called "The Gift of the Magi"
2007-11-30 12:52:52 · answer #1 · answered by phantom_of_valkyrie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mickey's Christmas
2007-11-30 20:39:38 · answer #2 · answered by katzigirl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try asking in the books section you might get a better answer
but the story was the husband sold his pocket watch to buy his wife a comb...the wife cut her hair to buy her husband a new chain for his pocket watch
2007-11-30 20:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Laura Elizabeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called Promoting Commercialism
2007-11-30 20:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋