‘Brown’ is an earthly color denoting ordinary, earthly quality it is the color of Della’s hair, her old coat, and her old hat-ordinary, well-used apparel.
The beauty of Della’s hair is compared to the natural beauty and purity of a waterfall ("cascade"). You observed that her hair is twice described “like a cascade of brown waters.” Water-or waterfall in literature can often be symbolic of purity. Oriental scientist by implication, a magician:-sorcerer, wise man (Bauer 484). The Greek word for ‘wise men’ is Μάγοι (magoi) (plural form of μάγος (magos)) meaning a Magian, i.e. The title Gift of the Magi, is a biblical allusion from Matthew 2:1 reading: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem” (KJV).
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