Why is Anna Karenina so unhappy?
Why is Anna Karenina so unhappy? Anna herself is unhappy in her marriage to Count Alexei Karenin, a senior statesman twenty years older than her who cannot satisfy her emotional needs.
Why did Vronsky leave Anna Karenina?
Their last quarrel begins when Vronsky puts off their journey back to the country because he must see his mother about some property. Anna refuses to let him go, assuming Vronsky wants to visit the attractive Princess Sorokin who lives with the old countess.
Did Anna Karenina go mad?
Anna picks a quarrel with Vronsky, accusing him of putting his mother before her and unfairly postponing plans to go to the country. Vronsky tries to be accommodating, but Anna remains angry. When Vronsky leaves on an errand, Anna is tormented.
Why doesn’t Anna Karenina get a divorce?
Anna is trapped; she initially elopes to Europe with Vronsky but is, naturally, unable to marry him. Returning to Moscow she finds herself rejected by fashionable society, and her husband again refuses her pleas for a divorce.
