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A 5 page comparison between Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman.' These two works deal with how individuals face the inevitability of their own mortality and the reflections on life that are inherent in that process. Although the stories are set in different cultures, the men encounter similar experiences in that both of them have to face and evaluate the sum total of their lives—how they have lived and value of the relationships that they have built. No additional sources cited.
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inherent in that process. Although the stories are set in different cultures, the men encounter similar experiences in that both of them have to face and evaluate the sum
total of their lives?how they have lived and value of the relationships that they have built. Though in different circumstances?Ivan Ilyich is dying from disease; Willie Loman commits suicide?the similar
characteristics between the two stories illustrate the commonality of human experience. Tolstoys short novel track the illness of Ivan Ilyich, from the moment he first learns of his disease
and asks the doctor, "Would you say my illness is serious or not?" (Tolstoy 12). The doctor makes it clear that he considered this question to be inappropriate. From the
beginning, Tolstoy demonstrates that Ivan Ilyichs problems relate not just to his disease, but also to the ways in which people relate to him because of it. Ivan Ilyichs
vaguely defined, but increasingly serious, illness elicits a host of complicated reactions from himself and also in his friends and family (13). This deterioration of emotion, as well as body,
serves to chip away at the veneer of respectability that has masked so much of Ivan Ilyichs life?from his unhappy and unsatisfying marriage to his meaningless and mind-numbing job.
Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, something of tremendous importance. Yet, he is the only person who appears to be aware of it,
as everyone else in his acquaintance is intent on denying that Ivan is even ill. Tolstoy demonstrates that each person in Ivans circle relates to his imminent demise in terms
that relate only to their own lives. Only his servant boy, Gerasim, accepts Ivans illness?and everything that goes along with illness, as part of life. His calm acceptance of Ivans
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