Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich
her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could
not abandon, so had she formed one towards him-that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that
she reproached him lovingly for this and she could not now change that attitude.
"you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad
for him-with his legs up."
she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up.
the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind,
but we must forgive "
they all rose, said good-nightand went away.
when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained-that same pain
and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harợer and nothing easier. everything was worse.
again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable
end of it all became more and more terrible.
based on the excerpt how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich?