What does the candle symbolize in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s the death of Ivan llyich?
“When I am not, what will there be? There will be nothing. Then where shall I be when I am no more? Can this be dying? No, I don’t want to!” He jumped up and tried to light the candle, felt for it with trembling hands, dropped candle and candlestick on the floor, and fell back on his pillow.
A. Ivan llyich’s shallow life
B. Ivan llyich’s troubled conscience
C. Ivan llyich’s murky past
D. Ivan llyich’s approaching death