PLANTS
THE LEAF
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Johann
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Johanna
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Joanna
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Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Baxter: Joanna Goodwin (segment “The Last Leaf")
Detailed explanation-2: -Johnsy’s real name was Joanna. In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the city. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people. Johnsy lay on her bed, hardly moving.
Detailed explanation-3: -The women are named Sue and Joanna, who is known as ‘Johnsy’. They live in Greenwich Village in New York among a ‘colony’ of artists who reside in the area. One particularly cold winter, Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia and it looks likely she will die of the disease.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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. Johnsy recovers, but (in a twist typical of O.