Analysis of "The Last Leaf" by O.Henry

The text presents a piece of narration with the elements of description and dialogue. The text is written in the 3rd person. The author is an objective looker. The title of the story corresponds to its plot. The plot revolves around two artist girls Sue and Johnsy, who have their own studio in quaint old Greenwich Village. Pneumonia has hit the area they are living in and Johnsy, not being used to the climate - as she is from California, is suffering from the disease. The disease seemed to drain out the last streaks of will and womanly taste from her being. She lay all day on her bed awaiting her death, looking out of the window listlessly. The doctor has said that her chances of getting well were "ten to one." Sue pretends that the situation with Johnsy is not of the importance that it is; she acts as though Johnsy will soon be well. However, she is truly worried. So, she begs Johnsy to close her eyes because she needs the light in order to continue her drawings. Johnsy agrees, but she tells Sue to hurry as she wants to go down like the last leaf. she goes to Mr. Behrman, informing him of the gravity of Johnsy's condition, hoping there is something he can do. Sue takes him outside to look at the barren vine with one last leaf. So greatly concerned is Sue about her friend that she effects the change in Johnsy's psyche that causes her to become well. Sue's determination to do what she can for her friend saves Johnsy's life. There is no doubt that Sue loves Johnsy as she has thought about what the doctor has told her and done everything what can save Johnsy, even convincing Behrman that he paints the last leaf onto the glass of the window outside, what, unfortunately caused the death of Mr. Behrman.
The climax in that text is presented by the moment, when Johnsy was running out, and on the branches was the last leaf.
That text consists of the denouement, which comes out in the end of the story, when the last Mr. Behrman’s leaf is compared with the greatest