The main characters are Della and Jim. It is a young married couple. Della is a housewife. But, she saved one or two pennies by “bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied”. She tried to earn some money in order to buy a gift for a her husband. It is a metaphor, and we can see, that Della is hard-working and thrifty.
     As for her appearance, Della is really beautiful. She always wanted to look nice for Jim. Her hair is “like a cascade of brown waters”, which is shown with the help of similie, is her pride. "Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out of the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts."-it is said that her hair is her one of her two possessions, the first is Jim. "the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes" shows us that she is quite happy. Also she is pious: “she had a habit of saying little silent prayers about the simplest everyday things".
     Jim, or Mr James Dillingham, is a young man at his twenty-two. He is a man of a house, a breadwinner. Jim was never late, he was punctual. He was rather serious. It is described with the help of simile: “as immovable as a setter”. He really loved Della, because he even sold his gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's, in order to buy a present for Della.
     Their love ie strong and true, and they are the magi in their relationships.