From the viewpoint of composition, the story is made up of the following parts:                                                                                                 

·        exposition. It embraces the first four paragraphs of the text and 

introduces the main characters and the scene of the action. From this part of the text we got to know that the action takes place in Greenwich Village in November, in cold, windy and rainy weather at the time when pneumonia stalks about the colony and deals with two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, who shares the studio at the top of a three-story brick building;

·        development of events. It is the biggest in size and the most important

part of the story. It starts with Paragraph 5 and is developed up to the end of the text, up to the last paragraph and includes the climax, the anticlimax and the conclusion. Here all the events take place: Johnsy catches pneumonia and, according to the doctor’s conclusion, has one chance in ten to get well. She thinks she would die when the last ivy leaf on the brick wall in front of their window falls. Here the author introduces the character of their neighbor Mr. Behrman, whom Sue tells about Johnsy’s illness;

·        climax (the most intense part of the text) is the moment when Johnsy

learns from the last leaf which still remains on the ivy vine, in spite of windy and rainy weather all night long, that it is a sin to want to die.

·        anticlimax is the next paragraph after climax. Here the doctor

says that Johnsy will recover but Mr. Behrman caught pneumonia and has no hope to get well;

·        and finally conclusion which embraces the last paragraph when Sue tells

Johnsy about Mr. Behrman’s sacrifice and the masterpiece of his whole life. This part of the text conveys the author’s other message to help people, sometimes even to make a sacrifice if it can help somebody.