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f the strap puts into question how much he values the watch. Lastly, Henry concludes the foreshadowing with Jim39。s reaction to Della39。s hair. Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail . . . He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face (Henry 4, 5). Because these elements to the story are introduced with impeccable timing, O. Henry39。s indication leads to a fantastic ending. .The introduction and reflection of twist ending The introduction of twist ending The most remarkable characteristic of O. Henry’s short stories is twist ending. It means that at the end of an article the mental status or the fate of the main character has changed greatly, but this change is based on certain reasons have mentioned in the previous article. He often stresses on something important but not the most important in his works. The most important part always seems to write incidentally, which even the most circumspective reader may ignore , the whole passage is suddenly endowed with a great charm because of the sudden change and caused a profound consideration of the situation or problem the article has revealed.When the stories end in a totally unexpected but reasonable way, we can do nothing but cheer for O. Henry’s literary talent. The deep reflection of twist ending The pure love between main characters Jim and his wife Della are young couple who are very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their oneroom apartment due to their very bad economic situation. So they live in a very bad condition, they are so poor that they can not afford to their Christmas gifts. But for Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a fob for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father’s father. To raise the funds, she has her long, beautiful hair cut off and sold to make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of bs made out of tortoiseshell and jewels for her lovely, kneelength brown hair. Though they are only the small potatoes who live in the lower classes, they never lost their fervency to their lives and love each other deeply. Finally, they find that these presents are no longer useful, but they have been the most priceless one in the world, like a sincere love to each other. They love each other so deeply, that’s enough. They have already owned the whole world. The human defects of the societyMost of O. Henry’s stories are set in contemporary present, the early years of the 20th century. At that period of time in America, the bourgeoisie was getting the upper hand and the capitalist economy was booming to its top. Bourgeoisie bribed the government and corrupted the functioned department in government. The gap between t