【正确答案】正确答案：Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen reflects the author"s twisted opinion about the altruistic spirit. The story opens with President Theodore Roosevelt"s Thanksgiving proclamation and states that it is the American tradition to make charitable donations to increase human well-being. The two gentlemen in the story are both altruists. The generous old gentleman escorts homeless Stuffy Pete to a restaurant and treats him to a lavish dinner every Thanksgiving Day. This year though Stuffy Pete is well stuffed by the elderly sisters" charitable banquet, he doesn"t have the heart to disappoint the kindly old man, whose "eyes were bright with the giving pleasure". So he goes with him to the traditional restaurant and has the second Thanksgiving Day meal. Until now, the plot is fairly straight forward and shows us two best supporting examples of being altruistic. But 0. Henry"s characteristic final twist shows. These two altruists are both taken to the hospital. Stuffy Pete is dangerously overstuffed, and the old gentleman is near starving, not having had anything to eat for three days past. The ironic and mocking ending shows us that good intentions may have bad consequences, and more specifically, that generous impulses toward our less fortunate fellow-citizens do not always yield genuine benefaction. The entire story is more about the exposition of the hollowness and foolishness of gentlemanly generosity than the altruistic spirit.