What does this quote from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy actually mean, and do you agree with it? : r/RussianLiterature
I would agree with it. Happy families bear huge similarities in the feel of the home. But unhappy ones have various problems and issues that give the whole familial situation its own breadth of hell. I'm not quite sure why you think happy families being a rarity speaks less for the truth of it. Although I'm male, I work in an industry that is predominantly female. I mention that simply because it provided me the opportunity to listen to a lot of tea over the years. My perspective is a byproduct of my environment, and my environment painted an opposite picture. All unhappy families are alike; each happy family is happy in its own way. The endless mystery of a paradox. The causes of suffering are multitudinous and infinitely varied in their content, thus an endless drama which serves as the scaffolding for Tolstoy's writing. The drama is what hooks us and pulls us through the experience of the work, where Tolstoy's most interesting and subtle ideas are inlaid like jewels. He's signaling