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All are interconnected by birth or marriage except vronksy the disturber of annas equilibrium

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But this does not matter this is not a depressing book at all

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It is a portrayal of human existence and the tanglings that we are prone to get caught up in and the effect of such tanglings on our emotions

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He does not flinch from describing his characters conflicting and contradictory thoughts and feelings

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As an example when anna after meeting vronksy for the first time having immediately before been missing her young son terribly after a short time apart upon seeing her son who she had felt to be the most precious person alive to her feels disappointed him in and less than she felt for him not fifteen minutes before

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More importantly tolstoys work is another example of the illustration of the inequalities between the sexes thus it is alright for men to have affairs but woe betide a woman when she strays from the marital bed

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If i have one criticism it is that after the cataclysmic event that vronksy experiences we do not discover how he feels about it instead he is mentioned by a third party as going off to fight the servians

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Similarly annas husband and son are left in moscow well before the book ends and we hear no more about them