Select the correct text in the passage. Which two parts
of this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich reflect the author's opinion that the members of the rising middle
class can never throw off their emotional masks?
Apart from this lying, or because of it, what most tormented Ivan Ilyich was that no one pitied him as he wished to be pitied. At certain moments
after prolonged suffering he wished most of all (though he would have
been ashamed to confess it) for someone to pity him as a sick child is
pitied. He longed to be petted and comforted. He knew he was an important functionary, that he had a beard turning grey, and that therefore
what he longed for was impossible,
for, and SO
but still he longed for it and in Gerasim's attitude towards him there was something akin to what he wished
come,
that attitude comforted him. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would
and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air, and by force of habit would
express
his opinion on a decision of the Court of Cassation and would stubbornly insist on that view. This falsity around him and within him
more than anything else to poison his last days.
did
It was morning. He knew it was morning because Gerasim had gone, and Peter the footman had come and put out the candles, drawn back one
of the curtains, and begun quietly to tidy up.
Whether it was morning or evening,
Friday or Sunday, made no difference, it was all just the same:
approach of that the gnawing, unmitigated, agonizing pain, never ceasing for an instant, the consciousness of life inexorably waning but not yet extinguished, the
a case?
ever dreaded and hateful Death which was the only reality, and always the same falsity. What were days, weeks, hours, in such
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