Summorise the story "The last leaf" also write the moral of the story
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n the artists’ colony in Greenwich Village, New York lives two friends called Sue and Johnsy. Johnsy’s real name is Joanna.
Sue and Johnsy met for the first time in a restaurant and found their interests similar which resulted in them sharing a studio apartment on the top of a triple-story building.
As the winter arrives, pneumonia strikes the city. Johnsy falls ill and a doctor comes to examine her. After examining her, he tells Sue that Johnsy has lost hope of getting well while it depends on her will power which is half the cure.
Sue comes in to complete her painting for a magazine but she hears a voice so she moves to Johnsy’s bedside and sees her looking out of the window, staring at the empty yard of the neighbouring brick-house. Sue hears her counting backwards. She asks Johnsy that what she is counting. Johnsy replies, looking at the autumn-stricken ivy vine in the yard of the neighbouring brick-house, that with each falling leaf of the ivy vine, the time of her death is coming closer. She tells Sue that the moment the last leaf falls, she will die.
Sue advises her to stop thinking negatively and take rest. She then goes downstairs to call Behrman, to pose as a model for her because she cannot afford a professional model.
Behrman is an old man living downstairs in the same building. He wants to paint a masterpiece but is unable to do so for years. His earnings come from the artists for whom he poses as a model.
Sue tells Behrman about Johnsy’s illness and her lost hope. When they come upstairs to Johnny’s room, they find her sleeping so they move to another room. They look out of the window to the yard of the neighbouring brick-house and watch the ivy vine when it is raining outside mixed with snowfall.
They both look worried.
The next morning, Johnsy asks Sue to push open the curtains because she wants to see the last leaf fall but she sees that the last leaf is still there on the ivy vine. It gives her some hope. She realizes that it is wrong to lose hope. She even asks Sue to give her some soup and says that one day she will paint the Bay of Naples.
When the doctor comes to see her, he tells Sue that Johnsy was fine now. The doctor also tells her that Behrman is suffering from pneumonia and now he is admitted to the hospital.
The next day Sue informs Johnsy of Behrman’s death. She tells her that he has died of pneumonia. The sweeper found him in pain lying in his room. He had spent the cold snowy night outside, painting his masterpiece. The leaf that did not move or fall was his masterpiece that he painted when the last leaf fell.
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