What is the correct order of events in ivan ilyich’s life as depicted in chapters 5–8 of tolstoy’s  the death of ivan ilyich? ivan ilyich tries to read a zola novel while convincing himself that he is healing, but his pain returns worse than ever. ivan ilyich tries to distract himself from his death by resuming his professional duties as a judge but fails. ivan ilyich visits a specialist who tells him that his vermiform appendix is the problem. ivan ilyich tries to use the logic of caius the mortal to try to make sense of dying but fails. ivan ilyich watches his family leave to go to the theater and finally gains some peace.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing

they fear for their lives