describe how johnsy regained her will to live
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DESCRIBE JOHNSY. RECOVERY
Johnsy's main problem is not pneumonia but psychological depression. She was a struggling artist on the brink of failure, and now she can't even soldier on with her artistic career. It is too much. She is ready to give up. She should be able to recover from the pneumonia because she is young and strong. The doctor tells Sue in confidence:
“She has one chance in—let us say, ten,” he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. “And that chance is for her to want to live....Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well.”
Naturally the pneumonia is affecting Johnsy emotionally as well as physically, but she is probably feeling depressed and even suicidal because of the struggle for survival as an unknown artist in a cold, gray city that offers the most opportunity but also attracts the most competition. Johnsy is not as aggressive as Sue, who can go on working at her art at the same time she nurses her friend. Johnsy is probably not as talented as Sue. Johnsy's idea of painting the Bay of Naples shows that her creative imagination is limited. She has gotten this idea that she is going to die when the last leaf falls off the vine embracing the wall of the building next door. This seems like a form of suicide. People can die if they will themselves to die--especially when they have the help of a killer disease like pneumonia.
When Old Behrman sacrifices his life to paint a single leaf on the wall, he cannot cure Johnsy's pneumonia, but he can give her the courage and determination to survive. Somehow, miraculously, Behrman projects his own stubborn Germanic courage into that simple picture of an ivy leaf. Johnsy is not only inspired to fight for life because of her identification with the seemingly courageous leaf, but she is also unwittingly inspired by the courage that went into its creation. That is the power of real art. It transmits the artist's feelings to others. When Johnsy realizes that the last leaf refuses to die in spite of the fury of the elements, she regains her desire to live.
“I've been a bad girl, Sudie,” said Johnsy. “Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and—no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook.”
The doctor is used for exposition. He is the voice of authority. He is telling the reader, along with Susie, how Johnsy is progressing. He pronounces the following authoritative judgment:
The next day the doctor said to Sue: “She's out of danger. You've won. Nutrition and care now—that's all.”
It is not until Johnsy is "out of danger" that Sue tells her about the death of Old Behrman and reveals the surprising secret to Johnsy, as well as to the reader, that the last ivy leaf was not real.
"Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece—he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.”
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Johnsy's main problem is not pneumonia but psychological depression. She was a struggling artist on the brink of failure, and now she can't even soldier on with her artistic career. It is too much. She is ready to give up. She should be able to recover from the pneumonia because she is young and strong. The doctor tells Sue in confidence:
“She has one chance in—let us say, ten,” he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. “And that chance is for her to want to live....Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well.”
Naturally the pneumonia is affecting Johnsy emotionally as well as physically, but she is probably feeling depressed and even suicidal because of the struggle for survival as an unknown artist in a cold, gray city that offers the most opportunity but also attracts the most competition. Johnsy is not as aggressive as Sue, who can go on working at her art at the same time she nurses her friend. Johnsy is probably not as talented as Sue. Johnsy's idea of painting the Bay of Naples shows that her creative imagination is limited. She has gotten this idea that she is going to die when the last leaf falls off the vine embracing the wall of the building next door. This seems like a form of suicide. People can die if they will themselves to die--especially when they have the help of a killer disease like pneumonia.
When Old Behrman sacrifices his life to paint a single leaf on the wall, he cannot cure Johnsy's pneumonia, but he can give her the courage and determination to survive. Somehow, miraculously, Behrman projects his own stubborn Germanic courage into that simple picture of an ivy leaf. Johnsy is not only inspired to fight for life because of her identification with the seemingly courageous leaf, but she is also unwittingly inspired by the courage that went into its creation. That is the power of real art. It transmits the artist's feelings to others. When Johnsy realizes that the last leaf refuses to die in spite of the fury of the elements, she regains her desire to live.
“I've been a bad girl, Sudie,” said Johnsy. “Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and—no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook.”
The doctor is used for exposition. He is the voice of authority. He is telling the reader, along with Susie, how Johnsy is progressing. He pronounces the following authoritative judgment:
The next day the doctor said to Sue: “She's out of danger. You've won. Nutrition and care now—that's all.”
It is not until Johnsy is "out of danger" that Sue tells her about the death of Old Behrman and reveals the surprising secret to Johnsy, as well as to the reader, that the last ivy leaf was not real.
"Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece—he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.”
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