The Characters of the Story

The Characters of the Story

I think that this story is presented in the 3^rd person narration. The author told this story but didn't participate in it. 

1. "At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California." 

The two most important characters of the short story.

Sue is a very kind girl and she loves her friend. She takes care about her. 

Joanna is sick and tired of pneumonia. That's why she has thoughts of dying. 

2.  Mr.Pneumonia. The killer disease which plays so important a role  is personified by O.Henry in this short story.

3."The busy doctor" who treats Joanna and "Old Behrman."

4. and lastly, "Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them."

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo's Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along with the body of an imp. Behrman was a failure in art. Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe. He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who scoffed terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as especial mastiff-in-waiting to protect the two young artists in the studio above.

In conclusion I'd like to say that I like Sue and Johnsy. They are normal girl. It's great when friends help each other in hard times of life. honestly I didn't like Mr. Berhman at the beginning of the story but at the end of the story I saw his kind heart.