It opens with a man overhearing a conversation about the true reason for marriage while riding on a train.
It opens with a man overhearing a conversation about the true reason for marriage while riding on a train. This leads him to question what love is and to conclude that women are incapable of having equality so long as men view them as objects of desire.* Later, he marries a woman and a tumultuous relationship shifting between periods of passionate love and violent arguing ensues. Eventually his wife takes a liking to a violinist and the protagonist, in his jealousy, takes a trip, only to return early, find the two together, and murder his wife. FTP, this is the plot of what short story by Leo Tolstoy which takes its name from Beethoven's Sonata No. 9 in A Major for piano and violin?
It opens with a man overhearing a conversation about the true reason for marriage while riding on a train.
The Kreutzer Sonata