What kind of a person was Mr.Beharman ? What convinced him to paint the ivy leaf on the wall?
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cantankerous
An old and somewhat cantankerous artist who lives downstairs from Sue and Johnsy. He has been painting for four decades without any commercial success, but still hopes to paint what he calls his “masterpiece.” He is an alcoholic and earns money by posing as a model for artists in the neighborhood.Behrman's painting of a leaf on a vine that was being destroyed by a heavy storm becomes a masterpiece, not only because of its accurate and realistic depiction of a leaf on a vine, but due to the context in which the leaf was painted and the outcome the painting achieved.
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In “The Last Leaf,” Mr. Behrman is quite a cynical old man, tired by his long life. This explains why he dismisses Johnsy's determination to hang on to dear life until the last leaf falls outside her window. Behrman probably hasn't painted his masterpiece yet because of his alcoholism.Johnsy felt that she would die, once the last leaf fell from the ivy creeper. Behrman thought of a plan to save Johnsy. He went out in the rainy and stormy night and painted a picture of a leaf on the ivy. Johnsy saw the leaf the next morning and got back her will to live.