"Anna Karenina" kokkuvõte
Karenin appears to be a very weak character. We have witnessed his gradual decline.
Chapters 23-31
Anna has convinced herself that Vronsky is in love with a certain Princess Sorokina. Yet Vronsky has had
his fill of Anna's paranoia. She has become too difficult to live with. Vronsky continues to go to public
places like the opera, knowing that Anna cannot accompany him. Perhaps he has done so because he
needs to get away from Anna often. "Now nothing mattered: going or not going to Vozdvizhenskoe,
getting or not getting a divorce from her husband. All that did not matter. The only thing that mattered
was punishing him. When she poured out her usual dose of opium, and thought that she had only to drink
off the whole bottle to die, it seemed to her so simple and easy that she began musing with enjoyment on
how he would suffer, and repent and love her memory when it would be too late."
The two have another fight and decide to return to the country to relax. Vronsky has some business to