The question of faith: how can an educated nobleman believe the way the simple peasant believes?.French, English influence marked as negative.The clash of values: imported, Western values.Shifting social attitudes towards divorce and the family.The changing nature of marriage: Princess Shcherbatskaia does not know how to arrange her daughter’s marriage.Polemic with the radical/nihilistic thinking about free love.Opening sentence states the theme: happy and unhappy families.description of Obolensky at the restaurant) is clearly felt by the reader to be that of Tolstoy. The invisible narrator-author shines through in Levin – cf Nikolenka in Childhood.
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