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A woman nick named Johnsy has come down with pneumonia, and is now close to death. Outside the window of her room, the leaves fall from a vine. Johnsy decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die, while her room mate Sue, who stays with her, tries to tell her to stop thinking so pessimistically.
In the same apartment building, an elderly, frustrated artist named Behrman lives below Johnsy and Sue. Beherman has been claiming that he will paint a masterpiece, even though he has never even attempted to start. Sue visits Behrman, telling him that Johnsy, who is dying of pneumonia, has come to believe that she will die when the last leaf falls off of the vine outside her window. Behrman scoffs at this as foolishness, but—as he is protective of the two young artists—he decides to visit Johnsy and see the vine from her window.
In the night, a storm comes with wind howling and rain splattering against the window. Sue closes the curtains and tells Johnsy to go to sleep, even though there is still one leaf left on the vine. Johnsy protests against having the curtains closed, but Sue insists because she does not want Johnsy to see the last leaf fall. In the morning, Johnsy wants to see the vine to be sure that all the leaves are gone, but to their surprise, there is still one leaf left.
The leaf does not fall that day, nor does it fall overnight, nor the next day. Johnsy believes that the leaf stayed there to show how wicked she was, and that she sinned in wanting to die. She begins to live.
When Johnsy is strong enough, Sue reveals to her that their neighbour Behrman has died of pneumonia, and that the one remaining leaf is in fact his masterpiece done for Johnsy's sake to live.
It is a story of 2 friends johnsy and Sue.They both were artists. They lived in a common room . But johnsy fall ill and she was suffering from pneumonia. She was not willing to live. According to her when the last leaf of the ivy creeper would fall she would die in no time.
Medicines were not working to cure her. Sue tried her best to make her realize that she would not die but johnsy not mind her advice.
Sue told this to an old artist Behrman about it .
He visited johnsy and found that her condition was very bad. At the night of the heavy rain and storm , he painted a leaf. That leaf was looking too much original that no one can say was real or a painting.
And that night Behrman got too much sick .
And he died. But that last leaf saved johnsy's life and that was a "masterpiece".
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