![]() To better illustrate his point of view, Leo Tolstoy gives a very vivid and detailed summary of Ivan Ilych’s life. This scene reveals their real attitude toward Ivan Ilyich and it enables us to see that he was only a means of getting promotion, rather than a friend or at least human being. Moreover, some of them are not even sure if they would visit his family because “they live so terribly far away” (Tolstoy, 1). ![]() Tolstoy says that the main character was “liked by them all” (Tolstoy, 1) however, at the given moment their major concern is promotion opportunities that would be offered to them after their friend’s demise. ![]() Overall, Tolstoy’s novella eloquently proves that only material aspirations can utterly dehumanize a person.Īt first, the author shows how Ivan Ilyich’s colleagues receive the news of his death. Furthermore, Tolstoy employs the plot of the novella as the key driver of his ideas in particular, we need to speak about reverse chronological order of events. ![]()
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