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Anna Karenina Haikus: Part 3, ch 16-20

Laurel Osterkamp · February 27, 2023

I guess these chapters focus on the hypocrisy of the rich. That’s what I get from it; also, they’re superficial. But does that mean that Anna and Vronsky’s love is also superficial? The jury is still out.

  1. Anna struggles to answer Alexey’s letter

I tried to love him

But he’s split my soul in two

Misery’s my mate.

  1. Anna “escapes” to Betsy’s croquet party

Where’s Vronsky? My needs

Include seeing him. Yet he’s

Somewhere without me.

 

  1. Betsy’s superficial friends question Anna

You may be happy

Or unhappy. But bored? No.

How do you do it?

 

  1. Vronsky has a day of financial reckoning

I wear my bathrobe

And balance my books. Not fun.

But I pay my debts.

 

  1. Vronksy considers his career

A military life 

Is all I know. But Anna’s

Changing everything.

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