Question

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Which two sentences in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich reflect the author's belief that Russia's rising middle class
was unable to express genuine emotion?
After that Ivan Ilyich would sometimes call Gerasim and get him O hold his legs on his shoulders, and he liked talking to him. Gerasim did
it all easily, willingly, simply, and with a good nature that touched Ivan llyich. Health, strength, and vitality in other people were offensive to
him, but Gerasim's strength and vitality did not mortify but soothed him.
...The awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about to him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost
indecorous incident (as i someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which
he had served all his life long. He saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. Only Gerasim
recognized it and pitied him. And so Ivan Ilyich felt at ease only with him. He felt comforted when Gerasim supported his legs (sometimes
all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "Don't you worry, Ivan llyich. I'll get sleep enough later on,." or when he suddenly became
familiar and exclaimed: "If you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should grudge a little trouble?" Gerasim alone did
not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply
felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master.
He longed to be petted and comforted. he knew he was an important functionary, that he had a beard turning grey, and that therefore
what he longed for was impossible, but still he longed for it and in Gerasim's attitude towards him there was something akin to what he
wished for, and so that attitude comforted him. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague
Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan llyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air, and by force
of habit would express his opinion on a decision of the Court of Cassation and would stubbornly insist on that view.

Answer 1

1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.

2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the given excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich, the author talks about the life and death of Ivan Ilyich and how the falsity around him helped hasten his death.

The two sentences in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan llyich that reflects the author's belief that Russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion are the statement that Ivan Ilyich would want to express emotions of sadness and crying but when his comrade came over, he would pretend and assume to be serious and unbothered, and the statement about the falsity around Ivan Ilyich poisoned hisast days.