最后一片落叶欧亨利评论

1、最后一片落叶 欧亨利评论英语短篇小说选读学生姓名: 李 丹 学 号:班 级:学院: 外国语学院 任课教师:Comentary on O. Henrys “The Last Leaf ”O. Henry was the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 June 5, 1910). O. Henrys short stories arewell known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist

2、 endings.O. Henrys stories are famous for their surprise endings, to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an O. Henry ending. He was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic.The shor

3、t story The Last Leaf is written by American writer O. Henry. It tells a story about a young girl dying of pneumonia watches the leafs fall from a vine on a building out the window. She decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die. An old man, their neighbour, is an artist and her older s

4、isters tutor, and struggles to paint his masterpiece. One night, during a bad storm destined to tear the last leaf from the tree, the sister closes the curtains so as toprevent her sister from seeing it fall. Much to their surprise, on the next morning the leaf remains. In the night, the man had pai

5、nted theleaf onto the wall with the vine, saving her life by sacrificing his own.The story is warm and a little bit sad while reading, just like the feeling of O. Henrys another story, The Gift of the Magiwhich is about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Chr

6、istmas gifts. When reading the story, people would feel pity for all the characters, Johnsy, who is in bed because of illness, and Sue, who have to paint for making living, and old Behrman, who want to be an artist but because of reality, he never has a chance. And also the writer shows symthy to ar

7、t and artist in this story. It reflects in the description for how Sue have to paint for making living and old Behrmans introduction.The characters in the story are all kind and artistic. Sue likepainting, though she must panit for living. Johnsy is sentimental, even in illness, she would conect her

8、 life to the leaves on the vine and shealways hopes to paint the Bay of Naples. Behrman never gaveuphis dreamto paint a work of art and he protected the two young womeninthestudio apartment above him. This may also be the reason whypanit the leaf for the girl.hewouldThe story is plain and simple at

9、first sight, the scenes are light and beautiful, the character are poor and weak, the plot develops peacefully, but it gives us a moving and surprising ending. But theending is reasonable at the same time, bucause the writer has already given us clues. Like the story says Sue and Behrman looked out a window fearfully at the ivy vine together with Johnsy, and Behrman has ever made a joke: “Some day I will paint amasterpiece, and we shall all go away.” Sadly, it comes true at the end.In my opinion, the writer want to show the magic