Anuradha’s answer to “am i the only one who felt like Tolstoy was portraying himself through Levin ? and that, well, Levi…” > Likes and Comments

I dont think that kitty liked vronsky more, she loved levin. she was just temped by vronsky

Not 'just tempted by Vronsky". Vronsky ignored her altogether. There are lines in the novel where Kitty sulks about the fact that Vronsky did not pay her any attention because he liked Anna more.

I don't think Kitty and Lenin's marriage ends up as an ideal only because of Anna's suicide. It was set up that way all throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, we are essentially seeing what society sees...and in terms of what society values, yes, Lenin and Katie were both "second fiddle". But we're steadily led to see that society is corrupt and hypocritical, and we shouldn't value what it values. Kitty essentially grows up and recognizes that Levin is superior. We're not meant to maintain that they are sub par throughout the book, clear up until the suicide. It's clearly laid out far, far before that, and would have been that way with or without the suicide

err...Levin, not Lenin

Not "only because of Anna's suicide" but as a contrast to it.