The discoveries Ivan Ilych makes are one thing which allows him to realize what a simple life he has led. With death forever drawing closer to him, Ivan feels that he is alone. For the people that are arou

Through the use of such mental and psychological events, it is asserted “Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible” Focusing his life upon social position, Ivan merely involved himself in his work. He even transferred more attention to his professional life than his family. It was only through the suffering, and lack of compassion he endured during his illness, that he reached realizations about his life through his epiphanies, discoveries, and changes in consciousness. Through these mental and psychological events, Ivan Ilych’s redemption at the end of the novel is able to occur.

Ivan’s epiphanies also play an integral role in the novel. When Ivan is looking at Gerasim peacefully sleeping at his side, he asks himself, “What if my whole life has really been wrong?” It is then when he realizes hi

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