“ The Death of Ivan Ilych “ “The Death of Ivan Ilych “ tells the story of a man on his deathbed realizing that the majority of the things he’s done throughout his life was for social acceptance. Concerned only with the thoughts of other people, his own ideas and thoughts were dismissed from importance when it came to self-image. On his deathbed he realizes that “In public opinion I was moving uphill, but to the same …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…wanted was to be pitied and in the end he received compassion from his family especially his son. The last thing Ivan said to himself before he died was “Death is over, there is no more death “ (134). In this he meant that his life was death from the second the innocence of his childhood left him and now his physical death is the beginning of a new innocent life no matter where it takes him.