"Anna Karenina" kokkuvõte
Chapters 12-23
Karenin is at his wit's end with his wife's affair and doesn't quite know how to handle knowing that his
wife is an adulteress. He considers both challenging Vronsky to a fight and divorcing Anna. He decides
against both of those options, going instead with what will be the easiest: pretending in public that
everything is fine between him and his wife. He decides that this option will cause Anna the most grief
anyway. The guilt will destroy her, Karenin predicts. "'Alexsey Aleksandrovich! What is it you want of
me?"' "'I want you not to meet that man here, and to conduct yourself so that neither the world nor the
servants can reproach you...not to see him. That's not much, I think. And in return you will enjoy all the
privileges of a faithful wife without fulfilling her duties. That's all I have to say to you. Now it's time for
me to go. I'm not dining at home.' He got up and moved toward the door."