To what does the title “the magic barrel” refer? it is an allusion to the saying “more fun than a barrel of monkeys.” it is a reference to salzman’s lie about having so many cards for eligible women that he had to put them in a barrel in his office. the soon-to-be married person expects an answer to his or her questions about marriage to come from a seer or a magician. “magic barrel” is an english translation of a yiddish term for “mysterious:

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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.

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