Johnsy recovered her health as soon as the regained her hopes for life and began to eat .discuss
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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