choice

Since ancient times, money and love have been a difficult choice. When people face these two things at the same time, some people will give up love for money, while some people will choose the beautiful love without hesitation and give up the hard-won money. O Henry's short story "One Thousand Dollars" tells the story of a young man who racked his brains to spend the one thousand dollars left by his uncle before he died, and finally realized his dream to have a perfect love story. In young people's world, love is more valuable than all the money, which makes people feel the preciousness of love. Richard Wallin had been a little troubled of late. He did not know what to do with the thousand dollars left by his uncle. Not long before, he had been informed by his lawyer, "Your uncle has said that as soon as you have spent the money, you must give me a written report, which will give you the particulars of how you have spent it. It was your uncle's last wish, it was written in the will. I hope you will do as he tells you." Richard Walling was not a bad guy and was good at painting, but he was completely clueless about money management. When my uncle was alive, he always spent money to support him. Every time he got the money, he spent it all and did not know how to save. So this time, when he was faced with a thousand dollars in his hand, he hesitated a little. "Give the money to a man who is good at spending money, and he will get happiness from it. I could buy a jewel for an amorous pretty woman, Clara Lane, who sang in the theatre, was pretty, but she was wearing a jewel ring worth thousands of dollars, and she could get no happiness from a ring worth only a thousand dollars. I could give the money to the concierge at the firm, who had said he would open a hotel when he had the money, but it was not a good use for money. I could have given it to that blind man who sat begging in the square, but they gave him a lot of money. He must have more than a thousand dollars in the bank now, and he doesn't need it." After much thought, he decided to take the sum and propose to Miss Haydn. Haydn was the daughter of a friend of his uncle, and she, like the servants, had a gold ring and a hundred dollars. According to Richard Walling, Haydn was the most beautiful woman in the world. But when he plucked up the courage to propose, he felt a little foolhardy. After all, his family was very poor. Later, he wrote a letter to his lawyer describing the source of the money. After receiving the letter, the lawyer began to announce, "The papers say that if you show your selflessness by spending the $1,000 on a good cause, you will receive another $100,000. But if you waste it, give it to his friend's daughter, Mary Haydn." Richard Walling was the first to tell him that he had squandered the money before the lawyer could read it. Then Haydn came along, and told Richard that she would accept his marriage. So, in the end, neither of them could get the inheritance, but they did get the most beautiful love, which no amount of money could buy back.