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Anna Karenina Haikus, part 3, chapters 21-32

Laurel Osterkamp · March 7, 2023

 

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.

  1. Vronsky talks about career vs. love with his friend Serpukhovskoy

We drink vodka from

A keg. Russia needs real men

But I choose Anna.

 

  1. Anna and Vronsky miscommunicate & tensions are high

Don’t say “degrading.”

Divorce means losing my son

All I have is you.

 

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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. 

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. 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.

 

 

  1. 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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