Anna Karenina Review
Review of Anna Karenina By: Leo Tolstoy Despite the title, Anna Karenina is not the main character of this epic story, but the second main character to Tolstoy’s stand-in Constantine Levin. Levin is a farmer, who is in love with Kitty, but she is in love with Count Vronsky, Anna’s lover. Anna wants to divorce her Karenin so she can be with Vronsky, but Karenin won’t allow it and he wants guardianship of their son Serazha. Meanwhile, Kitty’s sister Dolly’s husband, and Anna’s brother, Oblonsky has a mistress and finds his family getting in the way of his independence. This classic story is quite a soap opera, but obviously is so much more than that as this is a story is about life during a tumultuous time in Russia. Tolstoy juxtaposes Levin’s life with Anna’s as we read about the choices, they make to give them happiness. Levin chooses a more traditional, for Russia, life path, and cares about what is going on in the country. He has a happy life in the end,