Contents of A Dead Mans Pocket - Plot Line

Exposition:
Tom describing the Yellow paper, himself, his apartment, his job, and his wife are all apart of the introduction. The conflict begins when he opens the window and explains what he intends to complete that night with the information on the paper.


Rising Action:
Tom's wife Claire leaves for a double feature at the movies.
His yellow paper flies out the window.
Tom mentally complains to himself about losing 2 months of hard work for all the information on that paper.
He runs on impulse and climbs out the window to retrieve his paper.
Tom gets to the corner of the ledge where the paper is and pick it up. He also accidently looks down and sees the street hundreds of feet below him.
Tom is frozen from fear and panic because of the realize of what he's doing up there.
He slowly talks himself in to gradually getting back to the window.
On the way to the window Tom realizes that he truly could die up there.
He also realizes how much time he's wasted on other things instead of being with his wife and doing the things he loves with her.
Tom tries to pull open the window but is unsuccessful.
Tom, then slips and is barely hanging on to the ledge now.
He shakely pulls himself up onto the ledge once more.
He clenches his fist and swings to break the window.

Climax:
Tom gets into the apart by breaking through the window.

Falling action:
Tom gets up from the floor right away and sets the yellow paper on the desk.
He then gets his coat on and leaves to go join Claire at the movies.

Conclusion:
The pen slips off the yellow paper and it flies out the window anyways.