PLANTS
THE LEAF
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Question
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Sue
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O. Henry
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The narrator
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John
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Last Leaf, short story by O. Henry, published in 1907 in his collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The Last Leaf” is a story of Johnsy, a poor young woman who is critically ill due to pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the wall outside her window would lose all its leaves, she would die too. However, her neighbor, Behrman, an artist, tricks her by painting a leaf on the wall. Johnsy recovers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Last Leaf Summary – Two friends Sue and Johnsy live together in a rented appartment. Johnsy contracts pneumonia and loses her desire to live. She announces that she would die when the last leaf fell off the ivy creeper that could be seen from the room’s window.