Status Updates From A Morte de Ivan Ilitch

he was furious with the mishap, or with the people who were causing the unpleasantness and killing him, for he felt that this fury was killing him but he could not restrain it. One would have thought that it should have been clear to him that this exasperation with circumstances and people
aggravated his illness, and that he ought therefore to ignore unpleasant occurrences.

She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because
then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her, and though she concealed her exasperation, that hidden exasperation of hers increased his irritation also.

I consider it an affectation to say that my grief
prevents my attending to practical affairs. On the contrary, if anything can, I won’t say console me, but- distract me, it is seeing to everything concerning him.

tolstoy once again complains about his wife through his characters