Anna Karenina, Part 7, chapters 17-31, Anna's last day

From the beginning of the seventeen chapters, the story goes back to the house of alkatich and echoes the beginning of the novel This time, there was a financial crisis, facing bankruptcy due to too much debt In order to get rid of the dilemma, alkatich began to move around and seek part-time jobs with higher incomes He was optimistic about the position of director of the credit company of the Southern Railway bank with an annual salary of 10000 rubles, so he went to Petersburg to find relations with others and visited his former brother-in-law Karenin On the one hand, he wanted kajic to say hello to the leaders of relevant departments, and on the other hand, he wanted to persuade him to agree to divorce Anna But neither claim has been met He sent a telegram to felonsky, not daring to say that Karenin refused to divorce, but that he was still fighting for it Faronsky and Anna, who still live in Moscow, are getting more and more violent The focus of the conflict is still Anna's dissatisfaction with filonsky's social activities and her fear that he fell in love with other women Tired of quarreling and reconciliation, both decided to leave Moscow and live in seclusion in the countryside Anna was already a little nervous at this time As long as filonsky hesitated, he would feel that he had something to hide It was supposed to start in three days, but filonsky felt dissatisfied because he was going to see his mother, so he threatened not to leave Felonsky couldn't stand it at last He went to his mother's manor for business reasons The next morning, Anna woke up from her nightmare and regretted her vexatious behavior She wrote to felonsky to ask him to go home immediately and discuss something She did not get a response, so she decided to take the train to find him at his mother's manor Along the way, her mind was heavy, she said to herself, and her spirit became wandering Tolstoy described in detail Anna's thought changes before her suicide in the way of stream of consciousness After getting off the train, Anna saw the driver of filonsky, asked about something, and had some misunderstandings, so she decided to punish the unfaithful man with death She walked in the direction of the train, then jumped off the platform, threw off her red handbag, and resolutely jumped under the running train Anna's last thought was the light of a candle, which lit up everything in an instant, then became dim and died out forever The scene and psychological description before Anna's suicide is very wonderful, which is a classic fragment worth learning from.