This summary highlights the novel’s exploration of societal rejection and personal despair, culminating in Anna’s tragic end driven by jealousy and isolation.
The review captures the harsh social realities Anna faces after her affair becomes public, as well as the emotional turmoil that leads to her tragic demise. It describes how Tolstoy intertwines the personal with the societal, showing the devastating impact of rigid social norms on individual lives. The narrative’s focus on Anna’s isolation and jealousy emphasizes the novel’s tragic tone, while also tracing the complex relationships and moral questions that Tolstoy raises throughout the story.
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Anna is spurned by society, which considers her adultery disgraceful.
Anna begins to feel great jealousy for Vronsky, resenting the fact that he is free to participate in society while she is housebound and scorned.
Despairing and dazed by the crowds, Anna throws herself under a train and dies.