Favorite Character
My favorite character was actually Stepan (aka Stiva or
Oblonsky). Although he always
cheats on his wife he just loves life.
While everyone else is struggling with his or her own neurosis he just
wants to eat, drink, and talk. In
any conversations the other person is always nervous talking with Stepan. Karenin for example seems generally
afraid of Stepan because Stepan will convince him to come out of his
shell. I can honestly see how Anna
and Stepan are related. They are
very chatty people who know how to play the game of Russian Socialite, although
it’s at the expense of their partners.
After Anna dies one can be sure that Anna’s passionate personality will live
on in Stepan.
Least Favorite Character
I would have to say its Countess Lidia Ivanovna. She is some religious nut that Karenin
respects and after Anna leaves Karenin she acts like a vulture and picks up the
pieces of Karenin’s dead personality.
She basically turns into Karenin’s harsh rule enforcer. All we really know about her is that
her husband left and she has no kids.
She is basically living vacuously through Karenin, but why? There was no sexual desire between the
two, but they were tied hand in hand in the second half of the book. The Countess also brought in that weird
French character that has visions and those visions told Karenin not to get a
divorce.
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