Leo Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilyich"

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This paper discusses that the novel, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", by Tolstoy is almost a journal of the author?s fear of dying. The author points out that Tolstoy believes that death forces each person to face his or her life choices. The paper states that Tolstoy had a fear of being average and ordinary and, through the penning of this work, discovered that average often means exceptional.

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"Tolstoy feared being ordinary and he let that show in the book. He feared being average and believed that is a fate worse than death itself. ?Ivan's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.? Tolstoy's attitude and fear of being ordinary in life is so strong that he cannot maintain the averageness of his protagonist. He turns it around by the book's end so that Ivan discovers he had accomplished things in his life."

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