Family HappinessFamily Happiness is Tolstoy s ironically titled novella about a young seventeen year old girl who marries a much older man. Initially distressed to find that her nave conception of marriage did not adequately prepare her for the complexities her new life, Mashechka becomes corrupted by the pretentious frivolities of St. Petersburg society. An exquisitely realistic psychological portrait of a young woman s emotional evolution, Family Happiness was