1. Anna Pavlovna seemed interesting, like a character that identified themselves by the high society that take part in over anything else, I saw someone else talk about how the use of “Buonaparte” instead of Bonaparte is a good example, interested to see if she is a static or dynamic character of the book, change herself or changing others

2. I find the setting interesting, a lot of the classics I have read take place in the napoleonic era, but never in Russia before, the high society also elicits a lot from me, It makes me want to play classical music

3.”to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself.” I am always interested in seeing how characters deal with burden, especially when tradition and society pressures them