AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -This short story is set in Greenwich Village, New York City in the last part of the 1800s. It takes us back to a time when the Village was populated by groups of newly arrived immigrants, bohemians and artists with modest and unreliable incomes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The story first appeared on October 15, 1905, in the New York World. 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 neighbouring artist, dying of pneumonia, by giving her the will to live.

Detailed explanation-3: -The story “The Last Leaf” takes place in New York City, in a neighborhood called Greenwich Village where many artists lived.

Detailed explanation-4: -SUE and Johnsy, two young artists, shared a small flat. The flat was on the third storey of an old house. Johnsy fell very seriously ill in November. She had pneumonia.

Detailed explanation-5: -“The Last Leaf” concerns Johnsy, a poor young woman who is seriously ill with pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the wall outside her window loses all its leaves, she will also die. Her neighbour Behrman, an artist, tricks her by painting a leaf on the wall.