The plot of the story runs as follows:

-introduction (the author with the help of setting’s description show us the place in which the main events will happen)

-exposition (the main characters Sue, Johnsy, Mr. Pneumonia are presented after the introduction)

-the story itself (the author tells us about the illness of one of the girls)

-the climax ( this is the night when the last leaf was on the tree, the main thing is would it fall down and Johnsy dies or would it stay and keep Johnsy alive, the night when Mr. Behrman draw his masterpiece and catch a pneumonia, but about this fact the reader hasn’t known yet)

- the denouement( the leaf stays on the tree and Johnsy recovers).