Tolstoy's Life of Leisure

i'm not sure if i religion can somehow provide that deeper meaning to man's life, it seems. But he doesn't hit you over the head with religin o. The only reason he's successful in work is because he throws himself into it with ambition. This is a nex thing. As his wife became more irritable and demanding, ivan ilyitch transferred the centre of of his life to his work. He semed to like his work more and more and became more ambitious than he had been before. And so there does seem to be a moral impetus to whatever's going on here. One of the funny things to me is that one could read this book and think