Ivan Ilych
The novel “Death of Ivan Ilych” takes us through the events leading up to Ivan’s Ilych’s death. ... Ivan is no different. ... I feel through Ivan’s slow decline towards the inevitable, he also comes to terms with the meaning of death and how life should be lived. Throughout the early part of the book, Ivan never takes into account his own mortality. ... Ivan had been living his existence avoiding the actual truth that is with life there is death.