Ivan Ilyich Self Satisfied Analysis

“Ivan Ilyich felt that everyone without exception, even the even the most important and self-satisfied, was in his power, and that he need only write a few words on a sheet of paper with a certain heading, and this or that important, self-satisfied person would be brought before him in the role of an accused person or a witness” (Chapter II) This describes the power that Ivan Ilyich felt he had in his new position, of examining magistrate, but he never abused it.