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The Book Club: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy with Inez Stepman

The Book Club

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The Importance of Dissent and Assent

Anna at the end becomes unlovable because she's so obsessed with clinging on to the only thing that can justify her decisions. Levin kind of makes a lot of peace with married life and the contentment it brings him when he sees her nursing his brother. There's almost like a physical sensation, at least to me when I read this, of dissent and assent.

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