class 9 english moments chapter 7 summary
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Chapter 7. The Last Leaf
The Last Leaf short story by O,Henry ,published in 1907 in his collection .The Last Leaf concerns Johnsy ,a poor young woman who is seriously ill with pneumonia ,she believes that when the ivy wine on the wall outside her window loses all its leaves ,she will also die .Her neighbor Behrman ,an artist her by painting a leaf on the wall .Johnsy recovers ,but (in a twist typical of O ,Henry ) Behrman ,who caught pneumonia while painting the leaf,dies.
An increasingly fatalistic Johnsy becomes obsessed with the leaves falling from a vine outside her window.After the last leaf falls ,she tells sue ,she will die .Sue works on an illustration for a magazine (which she plans to sell to buy more food for Johnsy) and tries unsuccessfully to convince Johnsy that she has something to live for .sue goes to visit their downstairs neighbour ,Behrman -an old ,unsuccessful artist who ,after decades of failure ,still hopes to paint his "masterpiece".when he hears about johnsy's illness and her obsession with the leaves outside her window ,he is initially contemptuous of the idea that leaves coud have anything to do with johnsy's health .