![]() At the German spa where she takes a rest cure she tries to deny her womanly nature by becoming a religious do-gooder. Kitty falls ill after her humiliating rejection by Vronsky. Petersburg, while the disappointed Levin returns to his country estate. Anna, followed by Vronsky, returns to her husband and son in St. He and Anna are so involved with each other at the grand ball that Kitty's hopes for Vronsky are shattered. Meeting the lovely Madame Karenina, Vronsky falls in love and begins to pursue her. She refuses him, for she loves Count Vronsky, a dashing army officer who has no intentions of marrying. Konstantin Levin, Stiva's friend, arrives in Moscow to propose to the eighteen year old Kitty Shtcherbatsky. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to reconcile the couple and dissuades Dolly from getting a divorce. Plot Structure and Technique in Anna KareninaĪ crisis develops in the Oblonsky household when Dolly finds out about her husband's affair.The children ran wild all over the house the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. ![]() This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. ![]() The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. ![]() Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Įverything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. ![]()
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