Tschubukov and Natalia's Anger to Lomov

One day, with a mind to propose Natalia, Lomov pays a visit to his neighbor Tschubukov. He is wearing tails and white gloves. Tschubukov shakes his hand and says that this really is a surprise. After they greet each other, they sit and Tschubukov asks him what he is all dressed up for and why he is wearing a morning coat, gloves and so on.


Anton Chekhov(1860-1904)

He adds that it isn't New Year's Day. Lomov's formal dress on no occasion surprises him. When Lomov proposes to marry Natalia, Tschubukov is overjoyed and goes to inform his daughter. Then Natalia enters the room expecting a customer for the goods, but she finds Lomov there. She is surprised at his formal dress and asks him if he is going to a ball or something.

Now Lomov has to make a proposal for her, but he doesn't say it directly. He says that his Oxen Meadows are next to her wood. This claim over the meadows provokes anger in Natalia, who says that they belong to her. Later on Tschubukov comes and claims that the Meadows belong to him. Then Lomov drags the Tschubukov into the dispute and both the father and the daughter get angry. Then they send him away.

When Natalia knows that Lomov has made a proposal for her, she forces her father to bring him back. Lomov comes in and the argument begins again about the superiority of each other's dogs. The father also joins the quarrel again. Lomov's rude behavior makes them angry again.

All the characters are immature and cannot handle the situation tactfully. They get angry at petty things. Natalia gets fired on Lomov without properly knowing his cause of the visit, and her father, though knows his cause of the visit, in spite of cooling down the quarrel, becomes rude and takes the support of his daughter. And Lomov, instead of proposing her directly and in a polite manner, starts beating the bush and finds the cause for quarrel. He must keep in mind that he was there to propose her not to fight for the ancestral property.

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