C. "Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them"
Explanation:
The excerpt presented above is from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iliyich that shows that even in a young age Ivan wanted to be part of the high class society or the elite group.
