Can you provide a review of "Proof of the Pudding" by O. Henry?

In "Proof of the Pudding" by O. Henry, two men who were
once close friends have now become estranged (separated) by a difference in
lifestyles.

Editor Westbrook has just received honors for
having a successful magazine. He is walking through the park and runs into his old
friend, Dawe. Dawe looks like a beggar. He has not been published lately, and he has
very little money. In fact, he is behind on his
rent.

Westbrook and Dawe used to live near each other in a
nice neighborhood. After Dawe stopped getting anything he had written published, he fell
into a beggar state and had to move away from Westbrook and the nice
neighborhood.

On this day when Westbrook just so happened
to run into Dawe, Dawe asked Westbrook why he wouldn't publish his written fiction.
Westbrook said the resolution was not rich enough.

Dawe
stated that people reacted in ordinary, everyday-type expressions or mannerisms in the
face of tragedy or at the end of the story. Westbrook disagreed, believing people
reacted more eloquently in the face of tragedy. Dawe challenged Westbrook and received a
classic ending. Dawe's plan was to leave his wife a note stating that he had run away
with another woman. Dawe and Westbrook would hide behind closed doors and wait for
Dawe's wife's reaction in the face of tragedy. This is a way Dawe could prove his point.
He expected his wife to react in an ordinary manner or ordinary way of expressing her
sorrow.

Ironically, when Dawe and Westbrook arrived to
write the note, there was a note for Dawe from his wife. Dawe's wife had run away to
join the Opera with Editor Westbrook's wife. Dawe began to react in an eloquent manner
expressing his brokeness at the thought of his wife being gone
forever:

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_"My God, why hast thou given me this cup to
drink? Since she is false,
then let Thy Heaven's fairest gifts, faith and
love, become the jesting
by-words of traitors and
fiends!"_

Westbrook began to
express his grief in an less eloquent
manner:

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_"Say, Shack, ain't that a hell of a note?
Wouldn't that knock you off

your perch, Shack? Ain't it
hell, now, Shack--ain't
it?"_

In the end, both men
were wrong. Each reacted in an opposite manner than each had earlier expressed as the
proper way to react in the face of tragedy or at the end of a
story.