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    The short story "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker is about a young woman anxiously waiting for her boyfriend to call her back. She had called him that morning and he promised to call her at 5 pm, but it is now 7 pm and she has not received his call. As she waits, she reflects on their conversation and prays that he will call. Parker reveals the woman's feelings of infatuation and obsession through her aggressive language as she waits desperately for his call. In "The Last Leaf", O. Henry tells the story of two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, who live together. When Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia, she becomes depressed and believes she will die when the last ivy leaf

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    The short story "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker is about a young woman anxiously waiting for her boyfriend to call her back. She had called him that morning and he promised to call her at 5 pm, but it is now 7 pm and she has not received his call. As she waits, she reflects on their conversation and prays that he will call. Parker reveals the woman's feelings of infatuation and obsession through her aggressive language as she waits desperately for his call. In "The Last Leaf", O. Henry tells the story of two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, who live together. When Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia, she becomes depressed and believes she will die when the last ivy leaf

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    The short story "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker is about a young woman anxiously waiting for her boyfriend to call her back. She had called him that morning and he promised to call her at 5 pm, but it is now 7 pm and she has not received his call. As she waits, she reflects on their conversation and prays that he will call. Parker reveals the woman's feelings of infatuation and obsession through her aggressive language as she waits desperately for his call. In "The Last Leaf", O. Henry tells the story of two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, who live together. When Johnsy falls ill with pneumonia, she becomes depressed and believes she will die when the last ivy leaf

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    Arellano, Shiela Mae B.

    10 - Saint Joseph

    A TELEPHONE CALL BY: DOROTHY PARKER


    SUMMARY

    A Telephone Call is a short story written by Dorothy Parker about, as the title
    suggests, a telephone call. It is about a young woman waiting by the telephone waiting for a
    call from a young man. It is an inner monologue of a female narrator who is waiting for her
    boyfriend to call her back. The man promised to call her back at 5 pm when she called him
    earlier in the morning. However, the telephone has not rung, and it is already 7 pm. The
    woman starts reflecting on their morning conversation, during which the man had called her
    ‘darling’ twice, and she prays to God to make the man call her. Parker reveals the feelings of
    the woman experiencing an infatuation, and the diction and tone maintain a high paced,
    unstable feeling throughout the story. The obsessive woman uses aggressive language toward
    the telephone, God, and even the man she loves. In "A Telephone Call" the use of words like
    "hate", "hell", and "dead" indicate the woman's anger and anxiety, therefore developing the
    mood of irritation and obsession. Also, the words "maybe" and "please God" show that the
    woman is obsessed with the man and starts thinking of excuses of why he isn't calling, and
    shows that she is so desperate she is praying and begging God for help. Overall, all of these
    words that were used frequently helped develop the tone and mood of frustration, desperation,
    obsession, and anxiety. Ultimately, she decides that she would rather he had died than accept
    that he was choosing to ignore her.

    THE LAST LEAF BY: O. HENRY

    The story revolves around the two young artists Sue and Johnsy, who lived together.
    The story has been written by O.Henry and explains about instilling positivity and new seeds
    of hope to live and fulfill her dreams. Once, Johnsy fell ill due to pneumonia. Her friend Sue
    was really kind by nature and took care of her by arranging for a doctor and taking care of her
    medicines. But Johnsy had given all his hopes and somehow she started thinking that she
    would never be healthy again. Seeing her deteriorating condition, the doctor advised giving
    her some hope to live and free her from all worries. Sue tried to cheer her up and gave her a
    canvas to paint, but she did not pay any heed and just thought about the ivy vine and its losing
    leaves. She was not able to think positively and felt depressed about her condition. Sue tried
    to convince her, but Johnsy told her that after the last leaf fell from the ivy vine, she would
    also lose her life. The ivy vine has nothing to do with her recovery or illness of her, but still,
    she believes so and used to count the leaves of the vine. Sue felt very sad on hearing this, and
    she knows that Johnsy has become depressed so she told all these things to their neighbor, an
    old man, Behrman. She told her about Johnsy’s condition and how she has depended on an
    ivy vine for her survival. Soon, Behrman visited her but found her sleeping. It was raining
    incessantly that night, Sue and Behrman sat in the next room. Johnsy peeped outside and saw
    that the last leaf will fall soon and she will also die with that. To this the old man just without
    saying a word left and decided to paint a similar leaf instead of that and tied it on the creeper.
    But while doing so, he fell ill and was diagnosed with pneumonia. And after 2 days he died of
    that. He gave new hope to the young artist and fulfilled his own wish to create a masterpiece.
    On seeing outside, Johnsy felt happy and content that the last leaf had not fallen. Soon she
    started recovering and thought that there might be a reason as nature also wanted her to
    survive. Sue informed her about the death of the old artist, Behrman. She told Johnsy that he
    died of pneumonia and he was the one who painted the last leaf on the creeper to give him
    optimistic hope to survive and sacrifice his own life. The last leaf was indeed a masterpiece
    created by Behrman.

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