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This 3 page paper provides insights into Tolstoy's well known work by analyzing one passage. The passage examines the relationships between Stiva and Dolly. No additional sources cited.
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Anna is the female protagonist and so the situations revolve around her. While interesting and well written, Tolstoy breaks the rules by telling and not showing. This is something that
when beginning novelists do are reprimanded, but Tolstoy does it and it works. Not only that, but he manages to jam pack the book with so much information, each paragraph
contains a mini-story all its own. One passage provides proof that this is the case: "Oblonsky was a straightforward man in his dealings with himself. He could not deceive himself
into believing that he repented of his conduct. He could not now do penance for something he had reproached himself for half a dozen years ago when he had first
been unfaithful to his wife. He could not beg forgiveness because he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, who was the mother of
five living and two dead children and only a year younger than himself" (Tolstoy 15). Here, the author tells the story of one couple. What happens is that Annas brother
Stiva is the individual who is not in love with his wife and having an affair. Dolly, his wife, finds out about this and Anna is propelled in the middle
of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusual. Many authors would not reveal exactly what is going on in an individuals head
all at once. It is often the case that authors like to leave the reader guessing and drop tid bits of information along the way. Of course, while Tolstoy does
not tease the reader, the passage adds to the drama and compels the reader to go forward. In essence, Tolstoy shocks his reader. The first sentence of the passage is:
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