I want to know how others understand that "all happy families are similar, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". I hope someone can dial again. In my opinion, perhaps happy families are harmonious and happy in people's eyes, while unhappy families can be attributed to various reasons, such as status, identity, money, desire, family and so on. This is similar to failure caused by various reasons. Successful people only need to see a conclusive result.
And this sentence is the first sentence in the whole book "anna karenine", which is perfect and has the effect of sketching. Anna turned out to be karenin's wife, living a routine and "boring" life. This is an unfortunate family. Unfortunately, it comes from the aristocratic life under the system. Later, Anna was completely infatuated with Lasky and deeply immersed in his romantic experience. The family they formed was happy at first, but with the change of Lasky's desire, Anna became confused and degenerate, which unfortunately came from the greed of Hu Wei. Each has his own misfortune.
If you look at it from another angle, maybe you can understand it this way. Perhaps Thun is describing such a phenomenon: people always have a "desire to repeat". Why does Thun say that all happy families are similar? I said, what if happy families are different? Happy families can be happy for different reasons, such as common ideals, lovely children, money and so on. How to understand "similarity" in Thun's dialect? I guess, maybe people at that time had some indisputable definitions of a happy family, and meeting these definitions was a happy family. What does this reflect? It reflects a herd mentality and an attitude of living in other people's world. As long as I do what I have to do, I will be happy. Is this empty-shell happiness really happy to outsiders? Maybe it's just the happiness of others' families in the eyes of people living in unhappy families.