In "the gift of the magi," the gifts that the characters give each other are ironic because a the gifts are expensive and the characters should not have purchased them b it seems that each character is trying to buy a better gift than the other character c the characters were unable to buy what they really wanted their spouses to have, so the gifts they gave are the second choice gifts d the gifts are meant to be used with the other person’s most prized possession, which they sold in order to buy for each other