The Death Of Ivan Lynch

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The Death of Ivan Ilych The Death of Ivan Ilych," by Leo Tolstoy, is a story about the life and death of a man called Ivan Ilych at the age of 45, of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia—a miserable husband, proud father, and upwardly-mobile member of Russia's professional class, the object of Tolstoy's unremitting satire. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior status in society. Within weeks, he has developed a strange taste in his mouth and a pain that will not go away. Numerous expensive doctors—friends of friends of friends—are visited in their surgeries or called to the judge's bedside, but beyond muttering about blind gut and floating kidneys. they can neither explain nor treat his condition, and it soon becomes clear that Ivan Ilyich is dying. he story begins with a couple of Ivan's friends discussing his death during a recess in a court trial. When Ivan's friends hear the news of his death all they can think about is who is going to be promoted to Ivan's position. Even Ivan's wife does not seem disturbed by her husband's death. All she is concerned about is how she could obtain a grant of money from the government on the occasion of her husband's death, and how much money the government will give her out of his pension. After the funeral is discussed in detail, Tolstoy goes on to describe Ivan's life. The story opens with Ivan Ilych’s colleagues discussing cases in Shebek’s private room. Amidst their friendly disagreements on a specific point of jurisdiction, Peter Ivanovich reads of Ivan Ilych’s death in the papers and conveys this information to his colleagues. Half of them are startled that someone so close to them in age and position should die, and half

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