- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Throughout the story, Sue unsuccessfully tries to cheer up Johnsy. Finally, she desperately begs Johnsy to “think of me,” asking how she would cope if Johnsy died. Her rhetorical question (“What would I do?”) demonstrates the strength of her friendship and possible romantic attachment: Sue seems unable to imagine a future without Johnsy, suggesting just how closely their lives are intertwined. In response to this outburst, however, Johnsy is silent. Even as Sue reaffirms her love and devotion, Johnsy seems increasingly detached from the human relationships that once “bound her…to earth.” Death is “lonesome,” O. Henry suggests, since it involves…