In which delve into the dark, depraved mind of Levin...
Haha, not really. We do do some delving in Levin, but nothing too depraved shows its head. He just wants to marry Kitty, the youngest of three Shcherbatsky sister. He first had eyes for Dolly, the oldest, but she was betrothed to Oblonksy in an arranged marriage. We all know how that's working out for them.
Then Levin had eyes for the middle sister, Nataly, but she married a diplomat.
The narrator makes it clear that Levin is mostly in love with these sisters because he, Levin, was deprived of a normal aristocratic family life, and during his formative years he fell in love with the whole Shcherbatsky family.
Thus he pines for Kitty, the youngest and the only unmarried daughter, who is much younger than thirty-two year old Levin.
Levin, soulful and neurotic, is quite the opposite of Oblonsky. A good foil. From my uneducated point of view, Levin seems a much more traditional Russian. I hope he sticks around.
Stray thoughts--
-This reminds me of a girl I knew in college. She was a clarinet player who always wore a Dale Earnhardt hat and talked with an almost unintelligible country accent. Her refrain to every sentence was, "and everything," only it sounded like, "an airy tang."
At recitals, there would always be this lone dude, unshaven and denimen-clad, not the type you'd expect to see at a music recital. He was her husband. The rumor was that he was lifelong friends with the girl's father, who was now his father-in-law. There must have been at least twenty years between the them. So gross.
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