Moreover, sometimes the ending repeats the beginning and strings the whole article to

elucidate the human virtues. In A Service of Love, O Henry inputs the comment to an
inside view, which is conveyed by the conversation between Joe and Delia: When one
loves ones art no service seenjust when one loves. The theme is straightly revealed
from the beginning and restated by to the end. O Henry praises for the pure love
between Joe and Delia. They both sacrifice their time and chance to earn enough money
to support their spouse. Delia works in a laundry for two weeks. They cheat each other
so that one of them can win the opportunity to realize his or her dream or Art. Until one-
day Delias hand is burned with a smoothing-iron, do they find out the reality. This kind of
ending eulogize of the love between ordinary people. The art is also a kind hearted, self-
sacrifice, hardworking and perseverance. After all, in the world of O Henry, American
society still has charm, has not become vicious. By and large, through the portrayal of
the panorama of a throng of people either of upper class or lower class, through the
psychological analysis of the characters, O Henry eulogizes the specious and precious
human virtues
The Service of Love, the story tells of an earnest young pair of art students, the
Lattabees, who prop up each others courage when their funds run out by pretending to
have lucked into a steady income from their professional skill in painting and music. But
it turns out that Delias service has been ironing shirts in a laundry while Joe has been
firing the furnace in the same building. Readers are not surprised to find out how
precious their genuine love for each other is. Monetarily they were poor, but they are
mentally wealthy. We may laugh with tears after finishing reading the story. O Henry
carries an abundant good humor with hum and sees the bright and amusing side of
things. O Henry is not the comic wit that explodes the reader into a huge guffaw of
laughter and vanishes. His humor and twist ending are of that deep quality that smiles at
life itself and mingles our amusement with our tears.
O Henry focuses on the poverty-stricken life and spiritual depression of common people.
He takes great sympathy on them, with dissatisfaction with the greediness of the rich
and the noble. O Henry is adept at seizing and grasping the typical scenes in life, in
which each episode of the life of the characters that had been in dilemma and
confronted fatal decision was presented. Through this, he not only chiefly portrays the
heros mentality but also fully reveals the inner contradiction of life. Finally, the human
virtues and defects emerge from the twist ending. That 13 not only arouses readers
ponder about the humanity but also earns O Henrys story fame of smile with tears.
Henry not only widens the experience of his readers, he also restates the verities that
exist wherever people continue to strive for truth and beauty in life. The humanity
reflected from the twist ending makes his stories at their best an influence for the
furthering of those ideals that still tend to command the allegiance of civilized men. O
Henry is the founder of American stories. His works are like a mirror of American
society at that time. A multiple of reflections are rippling through the years passing by.
The plots in O Henrys works appear to be nothing special at first glance. Nevertheless,
read those to the ending and you will find something unusual out of what seems to be
too ordinary. I would like to say, his works are full of depth in portraying an unfathomable
humanity of character. In a nutshell, O Henrys artistic charms will everlasting and be
viewed as a perpetual encyclopedia of American life. His works are the best urn of
humanity as well as the reflection of society from the twist ending.