“Every spot on the tablecloth, on the hangings, the string of a windowblind broken, irritated him. He had devoted so much trouble to the arrangement of the rooms that any disturbance of their order distressed him” (paragraph 104). What do you make of this passage? What is its tone? Does the narrator sympathize with Ivan’s attachment to his possessions?

What will be an ideal response?



  • Ivan’s excessive concern with every spot on the tablecloth seems part of his fussy overemphasis on material possessions. Tolstoy is suggesting, of course, that Ivan’s insistent worldliness goes together with a neglect for the welfare of his soul.

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