Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 7 summary
Part 4, Chapter 7 of 239 · 6 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 7, Stepan Arkadyevitch arranges a select dinner and visits Levin, whose interest in work and hunting coexists with persistent thoughts of death. Levin accepts the invitation without asking whether Kitty attends, while Stepan Arkadyevitch finds his feared new chief friendly and reaches Karenin only at four.
What happens
- Stepan Arkadyevitch gives Masha Tchibisova a necklace, promises supper, and chooses food for his dinner.
- He plans guests to bring Kitty and Levin together and encourage lively debate between Koznishev and Karenin.
- At Dussots’, he finds Levin measuring a bearskin with Arhip and stays to talk.
- Levin describes visiting foreign manufacturing towns and argues that Russia’s central problem concerns workers and land.
- Levin says death makes work seem insignificant, then accepts the dinner invitation without asking about Kitty.
- Stepan Arkadyevitch lunches with his unexpectedly friendly new chief and reaches Alexey Alexandrovitch at four.
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