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

END

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