It was obvious that Dimitri was extremely misogynistic, but his reasons for being attracted to women were much less apparent. Some could argue that he never loved the women he met, but that is much too simplistic. It was much more evident that he loved the way he felt around women. They gave him a sense of comfort. Even though this comfort was most likely rooted in his beliefs that women were inferior, he still was comforted by them. His narcissistic personality fed off this, and made him yearn for more. Almost as if he were addicted to a drug. This makes it hard for us to believe he has really fallen in love. It makes you feel as if he is more so emotionally invested for his own personal reasons/ greed. But, Anna is very similar to Dimitri. Both of them are married to other people, both of them are being unfaithful, and both of them are invested in the other for their own reasons instead of for the reason of caring about the other. In this sense, it is easier (not easy) to reconcile the idea of their love in relation to Dimitri’s misogyny and both of their infidelity.
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I agree with your analysis. I feel that his personality was a driving factor in his love for Anna. It was also because she was different from the other women in his past experiences. She was naive and because of this, she was persistent towards Gurov. She was naive and made Gurov come to the realization of why she was obsessed with him and his own flaw, focusing on only himself.