Rhetorical Question

A question asked without expecting an answer, because the answer is already implied, or because what matters is the doubt it exposes.

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich

There was light, and now there is darkness. I was here, and now I am going there! Where?

"Where?" goes unanswered and closes the passage. The question does not seek information: it shows that Ivan Ilyich thinks of death as a direction and cannot say where it leads.

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, Ivan Ilyich

And is it true that here, on this curtain, I lost my life as in an assault? Can it be? How awful, and how stupid!

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, Ivan Ilyich

We will all die. Why shouldn't I make the effort?

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, Gerasim

Perhaps I have not lived as I ought to have? it would come to him suddenly. But how not, when I did everything as it should be done? he told himself.

Chapters VIII to XII: Death, Ivan Ilyich

He searched for his usual fear of death, the one from before, and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear at all, because there was no death either. In place of death there was light.

Chapters VIII to XII: Death, the narrator