Vera in War and Peace
Anyone else feel like Vera was heavily underutilized in war and peace?
In the first book she has a fiery entrance. The oldest sister, clearly jealous of Natasha and Nikolai’s relationships with Boris and Sonya.
Then she marries Berg and pretty much disappears from the narrative entirely. Her marriage is important — it plays into Count Rostov’s financial troubles — but it feels as though there was a thread Tolstoy did not finish exploring.
Thoughts?