The falling action of Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, begins when the cold winter climate sets in and results in the mosquitoes that carry the fever dying off, which signals an end to the epidemic. Philadelphia is once again filled with people, the markets are bustling with customers, and there is food available for purchase.

The resolution begins when Mattie asks Eliza, the African American coffeehouse cook, to be her business partner and to help her reopen the family-run coffee shop. Mattie hopes this will make her mother proud, if her mother ever returns to the city. Upon Mattie's mother's return to Philadelphia, we find that Mattie's mother has been made an invalid by the fever, and Mattie takes on an adult role as her caretaker. The reopening of the coffeehouse is a sign of life returning to normal in Philadelphia.