Question

story pyramid for the last leaf

Answer 1

The Last Leaf"
Author
O. Henry
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Short story
Published in
"The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories"
Publication date
1907
The story is set in Greenwich Village during a pneumonia epidemic. It tells the story of an old artist who saves the life of a young artist, dying of pneumonia, by giving her the will to live. She can see an ivy plant through the window gradually losing its leaves, and has taken it into her head that she will die when the last leaf falls. Seemingly, it never does fall, and she survives. We learn that in reality the vine lost all its leaves. What she thought she saw was a leaf, painted on the wall with perfect realism, by the old artist. The old artist dies of pneumonia contracted while being out in the wet and cold, painting the last leaf.The old artist who saves the girl is the great Behrman