What does this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggest about how peter ivanovich reacts in emotional situations?

praskovya fedorovna recognizing peter ivanovich, sighed, went close up to him, took his hand, and said: "i know you were a true friend to ivan " and looked at him awaiting some suitable response. and peter ivanovich knew that, just as it had been the right thing to cross himself in that room, so what he had to do here was to press her hand, sigh, and say, "believe me . ." so he did all this and as he did it felt that the desired result had been achieved: that both he and she were touched.

-he reacts in a purely emotional way.

-he reacts in an illogical, terrified way.

-he reacts in a socially appropriate way.

-he reacts in a dramatic way.

-he reacts in a thoughtless way.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.