what was troubling johnsy and how did she get well ? (100 words)
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The Last Leaf by O. Henry
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Describe Johnsy's recovery.
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WILLIAM DELANEY eNotes educator | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
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...
Answer:Jhonsy was suffering from pneumonia due to the harsh weather. Doctors had done their work of medications. But she was not willing to live more. Her sister Sue was trying her best but in vain. She had just made her mind of dying. She had completely lost her self determination. She was just muttering that whenever the last leaf of the ivy tree would shed away, she would also die. When Mr. Behraman , their neighbor came to know about such attitude of Jhonsy
, he decided to draw a leaf on the glass of their window. Jhonsy saw that since the weather is so hard, this leaf was not sheding and hence she had got the inspiration, and lived.
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