In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan could be considered as one who takes things for granted especially life. Ivan is known for his working and quest to get higher on the social hierarchy because that is the most important thing to Ivan. He was caught in being the best, that he forgot how to live life respectively. Ivan also went into marriage with his wife without truly loving her. Therefore at the end of the day Ivan realizes that he had spent his entire life doing everything wrong and because he didn’t care about those he was hurting while on his carefree journey he was the one to suffer at the end. The perfect saying for Ivan is what going around comes around. One of the circumstances leading to the death of the main character is karma.
