The first act of Anna Karenina, a perfect start

The opening of Anna Karenina is a classic: "happy families are all alike, but unhappy families are different." This is a wedge It's an overview of the whole novel Tolstoy reminds the readers of this sentence: This is the marriage and love story that you are interested in Sit down and watch it "Obronski's family is in a mess When the wife learned that her husband had an affair with a French governess in the past, she claimed to her husband that it was impossible to live in the same home with him " This passage means that something happens and it immediately arouses the reader's interest The author continues to describe the chaotic scene of the family with ordinary Narration: the wife does not go out, the husband does not go home, the child is neglected, the tutor quarrels with the housekeeper, and the chef quit his job Next, there are two scenes, one is the study of the hero Arkady and the other is the bedroom of his wife dolly On the third day of the incident, alkatich went home He knew he was wrong and slept in his study Dolly couldn't forgive her husband's infidelity She packed up in her bedroom and was ready to leave But considering five young children, she was in a dilemma about whether to divorce These two scenes adopt the method of perspective switching, and let readers enter their inner world through inner monologue to understand their own ideas I regard chapters 1 to 4 of the first one as a scene Besides starting with family conflicts, I also lay a foreshadowing: that is, alkatich sells the manor when he is short of money, which is Dolly's dowry property Tolstoy has the characteristic of using continuous action in scene description, and the technique is very similar to Flaubert Here is the three excerpt: "Stepan Arkady Chi dressed, sprayed some perfume on his body, arranged the sleeves of his shirt, and put the pocket watch of cigarettes, wallet, matches and double chains into a few pockets with a habit, then shook his handkerchief." There are five continuous actions in this section: dressing, spraying, finishing, putting in and shaking "After reading the letter, Stephan alkatich moved the document over, looked through two files in a hurry, made some marks with a thick pencil, then pushed away the document, picked up the coffee, opened the morning paper with wet ink, and read the paper while drinking coffee." There are nine consecutive actions in this passage: look, move, turn, mark, push, lift, open, drink and watch "After reading the newspaper, having a second cup of coffee and a piece of buttery white bread, he stood up, shook the crumbs off his vest, stretched out his broad chest, and smiled happily - not because he was in a particularly happy mood, but because he had a good digestion." This section has seen, drink, eat, stand up, shake, stretch and laugh seven consecutive movements.