The Gift of the Magi | Other Characters
Dell
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Jim
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Madame
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Madmame Sofronie
Madame Sofronie, the only character in the story other than the Youngs, owns the local hair-goods shop; in the early 1900s, when this story was written, wigs were made of real human hair. She has a small role in the story, but O. Henry provides a rich characterization with only one sentence: "Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the 'Sofronie.'" She is blunt: when Delia asks whether she would buy her hair, she...
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