Which of the following assertions best applies to this excerpt?
A. People are too preoccupied with getting into heaven, so they waste their money on religious
endeavors.
B. People no longer understand and appreciate the proper value of money.
C. Society has lost all respect for the arts, replacing creative pursuits with monetary ones.
D. Society must return to working closely with the earth and in nature in order to be happy.
E. People have become lazy and unethical in pursuit of business.
Please select the best answer from the choices provided

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.