Although Anna loves Vronsky, she keeps denying her love for him in the beginning of the story. It is because Anna cares about Kitty. Anna knows that
coincidentally she has hurt Kitty‟s feeling when she dances with Vronsky, “She is jealous of me. I have spoiled…It was because of me that the ball was a torture instead
of a joy to her” p.113. Therefore, Anna asks Vronsky to stop ceasing her and to apologize to Kitty, “I want you to go to Moscow and beg Kitty‟s forgiveness”
p.155.
b. Motherly
As a mother, Anna Karenin has an unlimited love for her son, Seriozha. Anna cannot stand for a long time separated from him. When she is still in Moscow, what
she thinks about almost all the time is Seriozha. It was toward ten o‟clock—the time she generally said good-night to her son
and often tucked him into bed herself before going to a ball —and she felt sad
at being so far from him; and whatever they talked about her thoughts kept returning to her curly-headed Seriozha. She longed to look at his photograph
and talk about him p.89. For Anna, Seriozha is the only reason she holds on living within The
Karenins. When she looks at Seriozha, she feels that all her burdens are suddenly dissapeared and happiness fills in her heart,
“Anna felt an almost physical pleasure in his nearness to her, in his caresses, and it was a moral solace to meet his artless,
trusting, loving gaze and listen to his naïve questions” p.123. According to Anna, Seriozha is her most precious one, “To me you‟re nicer than anyone on the world”
p.123. There will be no one who can defeat the power of love from Anna to Seriozha.
Anna does not only treat her own son but also Dolly‟s children with a lot of love and kindness, “She could remember not only all their names but exactly how old
the children were, their characters, and what ailments they had had; Dolly could not help being touched” p.81. The way Anna pays attention to Dolly‟s children shows
that she is a good-hearted woman with maternity. Besides being a loving mother and aunt, Anna also becomes a good-hearted
teacher for children. She teaches Russian for senior high school boys and for a girl she has brought home, and she even contributes her knowledge and time to write
children‟s book p.728.
c. Intelligent
Anna is a perceptive woman. She is good at noticing things that people in general do not notice. She knows how the whole life of Petersburg Society goes on.
She knew each one‟s habits and weaknesses and where the shoe pinched this or that foot, knew their relations with one another and with the head
authorities, knew who sided with whom, and how and by what means each supported himself, and who agreed and disagreed with whom and why”
p.142. From the quotation above, the writer can see that Anna is so intelligent that she is
able to observe the people surrounds her accurately in a short time. She is a thorough observer and she can adapt helself to particular circumstances easily.
