How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph). We used Constance Garnett's translation.
Quote #4
[…] he told Anna Sergeyevna how beautiful she was, how fascinating. (2.33)
Does Gurov really feel this way at this point in the story, or is this just part of his seduction?
Quote #5
He was genuinely warm and affectionate with her, but yet in his manner, his tone, and his caresses there had been a shade of light irony, the coarse condescension of a happy man who was, besides, almost twice her age. (2.40)
Gurov still has his reservations about Anna, even after he's begun falling in love with her.
Quote #6
She sat down in the third row, and when Gurov looked at her his heart contracted, and he understood clearly that for him there was in the whole world no creature so near, so precious, and so important to him; she, this little woman, in no way remarkable, lost in a provincial crowd, with a vulgar lorgnette in her hand, filled his whole life now, was his sorrow and his joy, the one happiness that he now desired for himself, and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra, of the wretched provincial violins, he thought how lovely she was. He thought and dreamed. (3.26)
Anna has completely transformed the way Gurov thinks about women.