The pier glass, a long, narrow mirror designed to fit between two windows, offers Della a solution to her dilemma of what she can give her beloved husband for Christmas.
When Della looks in this pier glass, agilely moving so that she develops the full image of herself in the narrow mirror, she notices in each single, narrow image her luxurious hair. She realized that this beautiful hair is worth money because at the turn...
The pier glass, a long, narrow mirror designed to fit between two windows, offers Della a solution to her dilemma of what she can give her beloved husband for Christmas.
When Della looks in this pier glass, agilely moving so that she develops the full image of herself in the narrow mirror, she notices in each single, narrow image her luxurious hair. She realized that this beautiful hair is worth money because at the turn of the twentieth century, the setting of this story, women with lovely hair could sell it for hairpieces for wealthy women.
Della's beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
On an impulse, Della dons her old brown hat and her jacket and hurries lest she change her mind. Arriving at a shop with the sign "Madame Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds," she asks if Mme. Sofronie will buy her hair. Lifting Della's hair and examining it, the woman offers her twenty dollars. Now, with this money, Della can buy her husband a gift worthy of him. Had she not looked in the pier glass, Della may not have thought of selling her hair.
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