The last third of part three is mostly about whether Levin can outdo himself with gloominess and being self-involved.
Spoiler Alert: He can!
Even when he realizes that his brother is dying, Levin is more worried about his existential reckoning with mortality than with his brother’s life. There are a couple of dramatic chapters about Anna and the fate of her marriage, but there’s more about Levin and his ideas on farming. So, I did us all a favor and condensed those chapters.
- Vronsky talks about career vs. love with his friend Serpukhovskoy
We drink vodka from
A keg. Russia needs real men
But I choose Anna.
- Anna and Vronsky miscommunicate & tensions are high
Don’t say “degrading.”
Divorce means losing my son
All I have is you.
- Anna begs Alexey to let her go and to give her Seryozha
I’m a bad woman
I’m a guilty woman. Yet
I can change nothing.
- Levin resists Dolly’s matchmaking efforts
Dolly – stop scheming.
Kitty said no to my love.
The land heals the wound.
25-29 Levin thinks about farming, reads about farming and talks about farming. And a hot peasant girl hits on him.
Peasants think they know
All about farming. Oh. Wow.
Her blouse is low cut.
- Levin’s farming project is all he thinks about. Except Kitty.
I’ll change farming,
change the world. Kitty – my
Heart beats with the land.
- Levin’s sick brother Nicholas makes a surprise visit
He says he’s okay.
Yet his cough says otherwise.
He’ll die in the spring.
- Levin and Nicholas argue, then Nicholas leaves
My brother is gone
All the joy in life’s gone too.
Death in everything.
End of Part Three!!!
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