Margaret is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and holds her Master's in English from The University of Mississippi. She currently lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.
The art of McCarthy can help constitute a moment to ask the questions necessary for finding ourselves in need of such an intervention, supplanting our nostalgia with inquiry and our happiness with real joy.
"Anna Karenina" and the Enchantment of the Ordinary
When I read “Anna Karenina” this time, her plot lured me like a siren song, only to find Tolstoy saying that the passionate, violent, tragic weight of Anna’s story does not testify to the entirety of the human experience. For Tolstoy, what is important in history and in an individual life is what goes unnoticed.
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