One of the most famous humorists in world literature, O. Henry created a unique panorama of American life at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, in grotesque situations, he conveyed the contrasts and paradoxes of his era, which opened up space for people with business acumen, whom the game of chance raises to the top of success, then throws to the very bottom of life. “The people in the queue rallied the ranks more closely; the cold, the cold penetrated to the bones .. Here, in anticipation of a free night, deposited sediments of the river of life, stranded in the place where Broadway and Fifth Avenue merge. They knocked their stilted soles on the ground, looked at the vacant benches in the square opposite, from which Santa Claus drove them, and quietly talked to each other in a mixture of languages and dialects. And on the other side of the square above them in a frosty haze rose the skyscraper "Iron", holiestly pierced the top into the very heavens, just and truly was the Tower of Babel, from where this idle multilingual people was brought here by the personal winged authorized of the Lord God ... "