How is jim'a girt to della an example of irony

Jim's gift for Della is an irony as the gift turns out to be useless in the end.

Explanation:

O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" tells the story of a poor couple who selflessly gave up their most precious belongings to get a Christmas gift for the other.

The characters Jim and Della are two poor people who hardly have enough to live by. But for the upcoming Christmas festival, both went out of their way to make sure that the other gets a worthy gift. Jim sold his watch to get a beautiful ornamental comb for his wife Della while the latter sold her hair t get a watch chain for her husband. In the end, both gifts turn out to be useless but it's the thought that counts.

Irony is when one thing that is thought to be necessary turns out to be just the opposite of what is intended. Jim's gift for his wife is an irony as it turns out to be something that is no longer needed in the end. His intended gift for her beautiful hair turns out to be no longer necessary.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.