Sketch the character of Natalya.

Anton Chekov’s one-act play “The Proposal” centres round a comical situation regarding a marriage proposal. In this play Natalya is a young maiden of

Sketch the character of Natalya.

Anton Chekov’s one-act play “The Proposal” centres round a comical situation regarding a marriage proposal. In this play Natalya is a young maiden of twenty- five years. She is, as described by the playwright, not bad-looking,well-educated and an efficient house-keeper but extremely pugnacious by nature. She begins to quarrel with Lomov over the ownership of a piece of land called the Oxen Meadows but immediately after she learns that Lomov has come to her with a marriage proposal she forgets all her grievances and forces her father to reconcile by calling Lomov back. 

Even her father describes his own daughter as ‘a love-sick cat’ to Lomov. But after Lomov’s return she again starts another fight over the superiority of the hunting dogs they have as their pets. Natalya belongs to a rich family that enjoys social position and that influences her to be a very rough and insensitive woman. She can turn very abusive and hysterical if something does not run according to her tastes.