Question

She is very ill and weak" said Sue "and the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies.

Answer 1

Answer:

Johnsy, a young artist who is suffering from severe pneumonia, begins obsessively counting the leaves as they fall from a vine outside her window. When the last leaf falls, she tells her roommate Sue, she will die. Johnsy sees the last leaf as a symbol of her hold on life; when it falls to the ground she thinks that she too will “go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor tired leaves.” By contrast, both Sue and their downstairs neighbor Mr. Behrman deny that the leaf has any symbolic value at all. “What have old ivy leaves to do with you getting well?” asks Sue with “magnificent scorn.” Nonetheless, though, Behrman accepts that Johnsy identifies herself wholly with the leaf, and he goes out in the storm to paint an illusion of the last leaf on the wall, which restores Johnsy to health by reminding her that “it is a sin to want to die.” Thus, the leaf represents Johnsy (since its trajectory is parallel to hers), and it also represents the effects of symbolism, since Behrman’s purely symbolic gesture saves Johnsy’s life. Significantly, Behrman is a failed artist who has tried all his life to paint a masterpiece, and Sue declares that the leaf he paints is his masterpiece. This suggests that the symbolic power of art is best when it is used to help others.

The “Last Leaf” Quotes in The Last Leaf

The The Last Leaf quotes below all refer to the symbol of The “Last Leaf”. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: Hope and Health Theme Icon). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Random House edition of The Last Leaf published in 1994.

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