Question

What opinion about Russian society does Leo Tolstoy express in this excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyich?

Answer 1

Leo Tolstoy expresses a negative opinion about Russian society does in this excerpt from The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

He Expresses the cold indifferent attitude of the Russian society towards the sick and the suffering.

All the people around Ivan behaved like strangers and only his servant Gerasim took care of him in his dying days.

Other people in the society looked at him as a burden and tried to stay away from him.