Anna Karenina

The passage in which Levin is returning home after a visit to Moscow is a powerful one because of the intense feelings running through his head and the constant change in mental and emotional states. This paragraph involves a variety of literary elements that make the passage so much stronger and deeper in its meaning. Levin evolves so much over this single subsection in terms of his self-awareness and constantly changing mental state. Each literary …

…Levin's character went through an enormous evolution of self throughout these few sentences which says a lot about the writing style. Going about reading and interpretation in this fashion is such a more productive one compared to just gaining a slight sense of understanding by simply scratching the surface. By picking apart the infinitesimal details, it is going so much further than just scratching the surface; it is going through the surface and digging forever.