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The Frau Consul’s illness is upsetting to read as I feel I would act and feel the same as she does: angry at her illness and desperate to get better, unwilling to believe she is actually deteriorating. It reminds me of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, in the sense that it feels like someone dying before their time and they feel this injustice. The way she is pushing away her family too and talking only to the doctors