Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird
....ending the story with his religious epiphany and not with Anna's swan dive was a ridiculous exercise in conceit by the author
|
I know a preacher who will carefully prepare his sermons to culminate in his message for the morning He will skillfully accomplish this. Then, instead of closing his bible and walking away with his mission wonderfully accomplished, he would continue on with embellishments to his point losing the power of his closing. I think Tolstoy did the same thing. Part Eight would have been better left out or worked in before the death of Anna.
But maybe he had a different message that I missed completely.