Read this excerpt from night by elie wiesel. one day when i was able to get up, i decided to look at myself in the mirror…from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. what does this image from the excerpt mean? the author realizes that he will soon die. the author recognizes that he is spiritually and emotionally dead. the author sees the face of his dead father staring back at him. the author can see the dead bodies in the background of the hospital room.