THE PLOT

       From the story we find out information that there are two artists: Sue and Johnsy, they have met each other in one of the restaurants in Greenwich Village. From that time they started to live in one apartment in a new house. On the ground floor they have a neighbour, Old Behrman, a sixty year old man. He wanted to pasint a masterpiece, but never yet done it. It was cold december when a big horror came to their house. Johnsy felt ill. It was pneumonia, a very hard desease. She was always lieing in her bed and watching through the window, where she saw vine with a few leaves on it. She thought that when the last leaf fall - she would die the same day. One night there was a terrible storm. The rain fell heavily and the wind was very strong. In the morning Johnsy asked Sue to open the window to look at the tree and the leaf, and it was still there. It gives her a great hope and huge believe to recover. We found that their neighbour was ill too and died in some days. The author explains us that that night Old Behrman sacrifices his own life and paints the leaf on the wall in order to save the life of a young artist. And such a big deal became his masterpiece, the picture that he couldn't paint during all his life, but at last he did it.