Ivan derives some satisfaction from this thought because he thinks the thought itself gives life meaning. In other words, everything he has focused on has done nothing but distract him from the fundamental truth of existence, which is that death is inevitable. To that end, he decides that nothing in life matters because everything he has ever believed in now appears empty and vain. As Ivan Ilyich succumbs to an ailment that is-at the time-mysterious and incurable, he begins to review his life, eventually concluding that he has wasted his energies focusing on his career and social status.
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a novella detailing a wealthy man’s gradual death, Leo Tolstoy studies the human impulse to grasp for meaning in the face of mortality.
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