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Place: at a glittering cafe in Broadway characters：Soapy; the head waiter Plot: Soapy imagined to go into have free dinner, but the head waiter threw him out because his clothes looked like a bum's

His life （1）

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in a drug store and on a Texas ranch. He continued to Houston, where he had a number of jobs, including that of bank clerk. After moving in 1882 to Texas, he worked on a ranch in LaSalle County for two years.
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Place: a restaurant of no great pretensions on the opposite of Six Avenue Character: Soapy; two waiters; a policeman plot：Soapy had a free dinner at last, waiting to be sent to the police, but the waiter just had some guys throw him out; and the policeman laughed to see this and walked away.
The Gift Of The Magi
The Gift of the Magi is the story of a young married couple and how they deal with the chalenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. For Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a chain 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. Mean while, Jim sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made jewels for her lovely, kneellength brown hair. Each is surprised to find the gift they chose rendered useless, yet each is pleased with the gift that they received, because it represents their love for one another.
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Place；at a corner of Sixth Avenue Character: Soapy; a policeman; a man running to catch a car Plot: Soapy broke the glass of a shop, and waiter for arresting; the police refused to accept Soapy even as a clue, running after a man who was to catch a car
Major Works
The Gift Of The Magi -- 麦琪的礼物 A Service Of Love-- 爱的奉献 The Last Leaf -- 最后的常春藤叶 The Cop And The Anthem -- 警察 和赞美诗 Lost on Dress Parade -- 华而不 实 An Unfinished Story -- 没有完的 故事 The Man Higher Up -- 黄雀在后 After Twenty Years -- 二十年以后
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Place: Five blocks Characters: Soapy; a young woman of a modest and pleasing guise; a lager policeman of severe demeanor Plot: Soapy design to harrass the young woman, but she didn't call for the cops because she was a prostitute.
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place: in Madison Square Character: Soapy, - the reguar inhabitants of Madison Square plot: when winter was coming, Soapy made his plan to enter the local jail as his shelter.
Most of O. Henry’ s stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses.
The Cop and the Anthem
Summary the Plots the Writing style the Theme

Questions before study
What is it telling? Do you think it is an intereting story? why? What's your view about the cop and the Anthem? or what 's their functions?
Stories

O. Henry stories are famous for their surprise endings, to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an “O. Henry ending”. His stories are also well known for witty narration.
His life （2）


O. Henry's last years were shadowed by alcoholism, ill health, and financial problems. O. Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver on June 5, 1910, in New York. Three more collections, Sixes And Sevens (1911), Rolling Stones (1912) and Waifs And Strays (1917), appeared posthumously. During his lifetime, O. Henry published 10 collections and over 600 short stories.

The Summery

The character Soapy, is homeless, a member of the substantial army of underclass men and women who had flocked to New York City during the earliest years of the twentieth century. In an unstated day in late fall, Soapy faces the urgent necessity of finding some sort of shelter for the winter. As with many other homeless people in the United States, Soapy is psychologically experienced in thinking of the local jail as a homeless shelter. He therefore develops a series of tactics intended to encourage the police to classify him as a criminal and arrest him.Despite efforts at dwindling a restaurant into serving him as an expensive meal, vandalizing the plate-glass window of luxury shop, repeating his eatery exploit at a humble diner, sexually harassing a young woman, pretending to be publicly intoxicated and stealing another man’s , Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate（绝望的）, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life— whereupon he is promptly charged for loitering and sentenced to three months in prison, exactly what he originally set to do.