What is the message of Anna Karenina?
Anna Karenina encourages us to grasp how we miss things right before our eyes. Tolstoy is always showing us this truth: We do not see the world, we overlook it. He wants to re-educate us to perceive the world differently, so that we are capable of understanding what passes before our eyes hidden in plain view.
What is so great about Anna Karenina?
Very few men write very well about women, but Tolstoy understood women just as well as men – that’s what makes the book so interesting. Anna is a wonderful character. She comes across as so gorgeous and adorable, and her relationship appeal radiates down the centuries. … And the characters are just so well-rounded.
Did Tolstoy dislike Anna Karenina?
Tolstoy was not feminist, though he did not hate Anna and did not intend for his readers to hate her either. At the start of the novel he described a woman who was almost a model of perfection and then destroyed herself and other people’s lives. But it’s not so uncommon for a reader to hate her, at times at least.