Exposition:

• Tom and his wife Clare living in New York. The setting being his little apartment 11th story on Lexington Avenue.

Rising Action:

• he stays home to work
• yellow sheet flys out the window
• stares at the paper and thinks about what he'll do
• nothings long enough to reach it
• finally came to the idea of climbing out the window
• climbs out window and slowly inches across ledge to paper, with balance
• once he reaches the paper he looks down and starts freaking out
• he can't move
• he's shaking and starts to inch back clumsily
• he reaches his window to find that it has closed
• gets angry
• tries to send up a flare
• throws coins down hoping someone will see
• finally punches through the window to get back in and realizes that he was worrying too much about his paper then he was about his wife
• he places the yellow sheet back on desk with pencil on top of it

Climax:

• as he walks out to meet his wife the yellow sheet flys back out the window

Falling Action:

• Goes out to meet his wife
• pencil rolls off desk because of the wind
• he sees paper fly out the window and laughs as he closes the door behind him

Resolution:

• As he walks out he laughs that the paper flew out the window again, accepting it because of everything he had previously realized.

Conflicts:

• yellow sheet flys out the window
• finally came to the idea of climbing out the window
• climbs out window and slowly inches across ledge to paper, with balance
  once he reaches the paper he looks down and starts freaking out
  he can't move
• almost falls
• tries many tactics to get attention
• finally takes it upon himself to break window open
• varies from man vs. self to man vs. nature to a little of man vs. society