IVAN ILYCH

 BEGINNING- Young  MIDDLE –Marriage/ Adulthood  END- Sickness

BEGINNING

QUESTION 1 HOW DID HIS FAMILY SEE HIM AS A PERSON?

QUESTION 1 ANSWER  HIS FAMILY SAW HIM AS THE PRIDE OF THE FAMILY: "Ivan Lynch was le phenix de famille as people said. He was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother, nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them -- an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man." PAGE 1271

QUESTION 2 FILL IN THE BLANKS OF THE QUOTE “Exceedingly ______, punctilious, and even severe; but in society he was often amusing and witty, and always ________, correct in his manner, and bon enfant”

QUESTION 2 ANSWER “Exceedingly RESERVED, punctilious, and even severe; but in society he was often amusing and witty, and always GOOD NATURED, correct in his manner, and bon enfant” PAGE 1272

QUESTION 3 TREASURE HUNT!! FIND AND DEFINE THIS QUOTE! (ITS SOMEWHERE IN CHAPTER II) “Aware of his Power: "Ivan Ilych never abused his power; he tried on the contrary to soften its expression."

QUESTION 3 ANSWER:  “Aware of his Power: "Ivan Ilych never abused his power; he tried on the contrary to soften its expression." PAGE 1273  HE CHANGES BECAUSE REALIZES HE IS IMPORTANT AND BELIEVED EVERYONE WAS IN HIS POWER  HE DOES NOT LIKE TO ABUSE HIS POWER YET. HE USES FOR RESPONSIBLE REASONS ONLY.

MIDDLE!

QUESTION 4 WHY DID HE GET MARRIED?

QUESTION 4 ANSWER  HE GOT MARRIED BECAUSE: ITS CONVIENENT ITS EXPECTED SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM SHE HAD PROPERTY  “Came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property.” PAGE 1274

QUESTION 5  EXPLAIN THESE QUOTES  “Ivan Ilych transferred the center of gravity of his life more and more to his official work so did he grow to like his work better and became more ambitious than before.” PAGE 1275  "...by means of his official work and the duties attached to it he began struggling with his wife to secure his own independence." (also read the sentence starting with "he now realized that matrimony—” page 1275

QUESTION 5 ANSWER  HE BECAME MORE FOCUSED ON HIS WORK, AND LESS ON HIS MARRIAGE. WORK BECAME HIS ESCAPE.  HE STRUGGLED WITH KEEPING HIS OWN INDEPENDENCE

QUESTION 6  GO TO PAGE 1276, AND GIVE US A QUOTE ABOUT HOW HE CHANGED THROUGH HIS CAREER.

QUESTION 6 ANSWER  HE BECOMES IRRITANT “Ivan Ilych became irritable, reproached Happe and quarreled both with him and with his immediate superiors..” PAGE 1276  BECOMES DEPRESSED “…he experienced ennui for the first time in his life, and not only ennui but intolerable depression…” PAGE 1276  BECOMES VENGEFUL “He decided to go to Petersburg and bestir himself, in order to punish those who had failed to appreciate him.” PAGE 1276

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QUESTION 7 HOW IS HE IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS? A- HAPPY B- IRRITABLE C- SAD

QUESTION 7 ANSWER  B IRRITABLE!  “With characteristic exaggeration she said he had always had a dreadful temper, and that it had needed all her good nature to put up with it for twenty years.” PAGE 1281

QUESTION 8 AS HE WAS DYING WHAT DID HE REALIZE?

QUESTION 8 ANSWER  “and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life.But strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all hat what they had seemed-none of them execpt the first recollections of childhood…all that seemed joys now melted before his sight and turned into something trivial and often nasty” page 1299