Read the passage from “The Gift of the Magi.”


When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.


Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.


“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”


What does this passage reveal about Della?


A. She is vain and has trouble dealing with the loss of her hair.

B. She makes the best of what she has.

C. She prefers her hair in this new, short style.

EDIT: Answer is B