“The last leaf”
This story was as follows: Johnsy was wounded by stranger in the West of Washington Square and she become having the habit that was counting the leaf out the window until the leaf no longer hanged on: if it fell away, Johnsy thought it means Johnsy’s death, but the leaf never fell because one man-Mr. Behrman who wanted to sometime make the masterpiece was suffering from the pneumonia and later died painted the leaf man-made after had confirmed the last leaf fell, and then Johnsy watched that man-made leaf, she decided to live.
The depiction out of window was impressing- “There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks.
“The green door”
This story started from what is adventure and Rudolf Steiner could be joined this group and the reason of this was followed: One evening Rudolf walked and found one black man who tossed the card writing “The Green Door” and if Rudolf watched other cards in from of him other people who passed this street thrown down, it’s writing not “The Green Door” but like “plate work”, and “bridge work”, “crowns” that was usual for the dental office. So Rudolf felt picking up the card writing “The Green Door” was special: the adventure must lie and decided to enter the Green door in the five stories. When Rudolf opened the door of green, a girl not reached yet twenty stood and tottering, he asked what happened, a girl replied didn’t anything eat for three days. So Rudolf decided to buy the food for her and gave and did good-bye, promised return sometime.
After going out the green door, Rudolf found the black man still stood at the road, so Rudolf questioned “Why you gave me these cards and what they mean”, the Black replied that means new play “The Green Door”, and informed about it. But Rudolf thought anyway it was the hand of Fate that getting the card “The Green Door” and find a girl.
The scene Rudolf bought the green door’s house and gave the food to a lady who hadn’t ate the food ate the food was interesting as follows: “When he turned again with the cup he saw her, with eyes shining rapturously, beginning upon a huge dill pickle that she had rooted out from the paper bags with a woman’s unerring instinct.”.
The room that door was green was one of rooms that was one of five stories and Rudolf raise upstairs, that depiction was swell: ”Rudolf walked briskly up the high flight of stone steps into the house. Up two flights of the carpeted stairway he continued; and at its top paused. The hallway there was dimly lighted by two pale jets of gas-one far to his right, the other nearer, to his left. He looked toward the nearer light and saw, within its wan halo, a green door.”.
Bibliography
O. Henry; selected and with an introduction by Burton Raffel (1984), “41 stories by O. Henry”, New York: Signet Classic
(O. ヘンリー著・大久保康雄訳、2002年、『O. ヘンリ短編集(一)』、新潮文庫
O. ヘンリー著・大久保康雄訳、2004年、『O. ヘンリ短編集(三)』、新潮文庫)
