Anna Karenina: Yet Another Blog Entrty

Many things have happened in the book so far, but when Anna Karenina came into the story still intrigues me, and therefore I'm just going to talk about this one scene where Anna went to talk to Dolly as soon as she could, trying to comfort as well as well as hear out the distressed maiden. After all, Anna knew why she was invited to her brother's house in the first place--to make things between him and his wife, Dolly, alright again. You see, he cheated on Dolly with his children's governess, which, for those who don't know, is like a modern day nanny. But why would he do such a terrible thing? What in the world could possibly justify cheating on your wife, and with your children's governess no less? For the first part of the book, this question goes unanswered, leaving the reader to hate the current "main character", Stiva, who seems like a pompous jackass... at least he did to me. Anyways, when Anna came into the picture and gathered both sides of the story, it all came together, and the picture of Stiva as a brutally honest man who admitted to himself that he didn't love his wife's body anymore, had an affair, and now doesn't regret having the affair but just regrets hurting his wife. Truthfully, I still don't like him, but now Anna has opened up a new side of him, breathing life into Stiva by showing his ideas, as well as Dolly's, in a different light. Having Anna there gives the book a new life, and it's changed so benevolently that even the language has seemed to change. For now that's all I want to say about the book, since all I can think about is Anna as a character.