Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich tried his best to escape from the reality of his troubled family life? (praskovya version)

neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them

explanation:

i cant see the passage although i do know hyperbole means overly exaggerated such as "i can eat an enter horse"! i hope this you!

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers