The Proposal

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The play shows wealthy families trying to make financially sensible marriages. It also presents how small arguments can grow into big quarrels when the characters are stubborn and quick-tempered.

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Lomov is a 35-year-old neighbour of Chubukov. He is a large and hearty landowner, but he is very suspicious and suffers from palpitations and hypochondria. He comes to ask for Natalya's hand in marria…

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Natalya is Chubukov's twenty-five-year-old daughter. She is the woman Lomov comes to propose to. She is also quarrelsome and strongly argues over Oxen Meadows and the dogs.

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Chubukov is a landowner and Natalya's father. He is Lomov's long-time wealthy neighbour. He first welcomes Lomov warmly, but later quarrels bitterly with him.

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Lomov comes to ask for Natalya Stepanovna's hand in marriage. Chubukov first thinks he has come to borrow money.

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Oxen Meadows is the disputed piece of land between Natalya's birchwoods and the Burnt Marsh. Lomov and the Chubukov family both claim it as their own.

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Lomov claims the Meadows are his because his aunt's grandmother gave the free use of the land to the peasants of Natalya's father's grandfather for forty years. Natalya insists the land has belonged t…

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Chubukov thinks Lomov has come to borrow money. He does not realize at first that Lomov has come to propose marriage.