ABSTRACT
This chapter compares Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina and Women in Love. Anna Karenina and Daniel Deronda envisage a life lived east of Europe which improves upon Europe's secularism and materialism, but for Anna Karenina this vision is consistent with patriotism, whereas for Daniel Deronda the reverse is true. There are strong similarities between critical treatments of the double-plotting of Daniel Deronda and of Anna Karenina, which reflect both critical fashions and the novels' similarities. Critics have divided into those who have stressed the connection of Anna Karenina's stories, and those who have stressed their disconnection, some of whom have found significance in this condition. Those who have stressed disconnection have often remarked on the failure of the hero's story wholly to contextualize the heroine's. Daniel Deronda ends by exposing some of the factors which are involved in the scapegoating of Gwendolen, whereas Anna Karenina successfully redirects interest both from Anna and from the nature of her death.
