the answer is A they wish their mom was more like the american ones
She is loving to the point of consumption; she is not taking others feelings in account for her actions.
Among the sentences in the excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, I think the statement that shows that Ivan Ilyich has realized the hypocrisy of his earlier life is: "Ivan Ilyich knows quite well and definitely that all this is nonsense and pure deception, but when the doctor, getting down on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a significant expression on his face, Ivan Ilyich submits to it all as he used to submit to the speeches of the lawyers, though he knew very well that they were all lying and why they were lying." This is because in his earlier life before he was terminally ill, he too also submitted to the lawyers in order to work his way up on the social ladder.
The correct answer is C.
Despite Bartleby being such a poor employee, Melville feels pity for him because he discovers that Bartleby is living in the office. The office is at Wall Street, a place that, according to Melville, is as desolate as a ghost town during nights and Sundays. He is affected by the loneliness of Bartleby's life and decides not to divulge his secret.
