“She’s like a love-sick cat’, Who said this and about whom? Analyse the character of the person, referred to here, under the light of the comment above.

“She’s like a love-sick cat’, Who said this and about whom? Analyse the character of the person, referred to here, under the light of the comment abov

“She’s like a love-sick cat’,Who said this and about whom? Analyse the character of the person,referred to here, under the light of the comment above.

Here the speaker is Chubukov, the father of Natalya.

Chubukov passes this remark to assure Lomov when he felt extremely anxious worrying whether his marriage proposal to Natalya would be accepted by her or not. During her conversation with Lomov Natalya hardly shows anybsign of being sick for love. She talks about everything prosaic like the weather and agriculture, except love. Even she does not hesitate to drive out Lomov from her house over the disputed ownership of the piece of land called the Oxen Meadows. 

But she immediately forgets all her grievances the moment she learns that Lomov came to her with a marriage proposal. Thereafter again she starts fighting over the superiority of their hunting dogs, starts abusing Lomov together with her father as a consequence of which Lomov collapses. Soon she behaves hysterically to revive him. Every move that she adopts is only to get married to a suitable suitor, not out of love for Lomov.