Anna Karenina: A Remarkable Book

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I recently finished reading Leo Tolstoy's remarkable work Anna Karenina. After reading all the way through from the first part through the middle of the book, I felt for Anna Karenina, with the impression that her husband Alexey Karenin was cruel to her and unfeeling; thus, leaving me to believe that he was a terrible husband who treated Anna terribly. Therefore, I believed that these were the reason's for Anna looking to Vronsky for the things and love she could not get from her own husband Alexey Karenin. I was led to believe that Alexey Karenin only viewed Anna as his possession and his trophy. However, after Anna left her husband to be with Vronsky, Anna's relationship with Vronsky turned from being happily loving to bittersweet. She was insecure and made life difficult for Vronsky, in that when he was away on business trips or made trips by himself to see his own mother, all kinds of terrible thoughts went through Anna's mind when she was alone. She was convinced that Vronsky no longer loved her and believed that he went on these exursions to get away from Anna. She believerd that on his return home he would tell her he was leaving her and no longer wanted her in his life. She also believed that he despised her, whenever he had stern cold expressions on his face during their arguments, and she believed that Vronsky hated her. But in truth, Vronsky loved and adored her inspite of the fact that she upset him constantly to the point of making him miserable. It is my conclusion, that through the story, Anna Karenina is a character who is not in touch with reality, in that she always let her imagination get the best of her to the point of making her insecure about Vronsky's feelings for her and feared that he would leave her for another woman. Anna was selfish in that she wanted Vronsky to be with her constantly, to the point of making him miserable. She nagged him and told him where the were to go together and when they would return home. But in the end, Anna's delusions resulted in her taking her own life by standing in front of a train at a train station which was not too far from Vronsky's mother's house. Tragically, the train ran her down.