Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“I have come to you….to trouble you with a request, “-Who is the speaker? Who is he speaking to? What is the request? How did the person spoken to react to the request?
The speaker of the above line is Ivan | Vassilevitch Lomov. Lomov is speaking to Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov. Lomov visited Chubukov’s house to request him to give Natalya Stepanovna, his daughter’s hand in mariage. When Chubukov heard about Lomov’s wish to marry Natalya he became excited. He embraced and kissed Lomov and said that he had been hoping it for a long time. He declared that he loved Lomov as if he was his own son. He shed tear and blessed Lomov. He failed to find proper reason for his idiotic behaviour but ultimately came to the conclusion that his joy was making him lose his balance.