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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Major Characters

Anna Arkadyevna Karenina – High society heroine whose love affair is the main point of this novel, despises her husband, takes her own life after the decline of her affair

Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin – Anna husband whom she cheats on with Vronsky, cold, reserved man of few words and fewer emotions

Sergei Alexeyitch Karenin (Seriozha) – Anna’s son whom she chooses to abandon to go live her life with Vronsky

Count Alexey Kirillovitch Vronsky – Rich, dashing, young military man whom Anna steals from Kitty, gives up his promising army career to be with Anna

Konstantin Dmitrich Levin (Kostya) – Kitty’s husband, his relationship with Kitty parallels the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. Kitty and Levin live happy lives and raise a child together, while Anna’s relationship is full of sorrow and regret, and ends in a devastation suicide

Princess Katerina Alexandrovna Shtcherbatsky (Kitty) – Dolly’s eighteen year old sister, beautiful debutante who marries Levin

Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky (Stiva) - Anna's brother, a pleasure-loving socialite, cheats on his wife, Dolly, with their children’s’ governess

Princess Darya Alexandrovna Oblonsky (Dolly) - Stiva's wife and Kitty's older sister

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