Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -How would you best describe the personalities of each of the characters in the play?
The characters in Anton Chekhov’s play The Proposal are stock characters, they do not express themselves properly till the very end. Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov and Natalya Stepanovna are representatives of the aristocratic society. Lomov, a nervous hypochondriac, decides to marry Natalya for his own benefit. Natalya, a spirited young woman is desperate to get married in order to achieve social and economic security. However, both of them appear to be very headstrong and argues time and again over silly issues. Chubukov also participates in this fight. Chubukov is a deceitful and shrewd intriguer who in spite of disliking Lomov and his family manages to execute their engagement for socio-economic gain. They never stop insulting each other, but marriage is the only condition that keeps them together. All the characters are concerned about their own problems and so they consider marriage as a measure to solve their own problems.