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@Mimishu1995 It’s a sweet story. O. Henry liked irony and there is a strong strain of sentimental sweetness to all his stories. Sentimentalism isn’t real popular today, but as a newspaper hack working the police desk in the rough world of NYC at the turn of the 20th century, sentimentality and sweetness was missing in his life. And evidently everybody else’s, from the way his fans bought up his books. So don’t be surprised if you need a shot of insulin to get through some of his stuff.
I see you as more of a Steinbeck person. Steinbeck in the 30’s, ripping away at Depression-era American prejudice and injustice, and the effects it had on regular people—and he told his stories in a nice way with interludes of real sweetness, some of it quite inspired. The Californian political machine called him a Communist simply because he always took the side of the underdog. But I think all he really wanted was a more fair Capitalist system. He just hated unnecessary cruelty.