The best and the correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the fourth choice or letter D.
"Conforming to societal conventions" is the t<span>heme that is portrayed in the excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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It's "D" because he submits it after completing it.
The whole excerpt is fairly introspective, but I would say that the sentence that shows this the most is In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
directing is pres pert'ple of "to direct" = infinitive
a gerund or verb used as a noun ...