Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“There’s some demon of contradiction in you today…”-Who is the speaker? Who is spoken with? What contradictions are referred to?
The speaker of the above quoted line is Chubukov’s daughter Natalya Stepanovna. The person spoken with is Natalya’s neighbour Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov.
Natalya accuses Lomov saying that at first he pretended that the Oxen Meadows belong to him and now he is claiming that his dog Guess is better than the dog of the Chubukov’s, Squeezer. She remarks that she does not like people who do not say what they mean.
As per her, Lomov is well-aware of the fact that Squeezer is cent percent better than his silly Guess, yet he is making false claims. Natalya cannot understand the reason behind Lomov’s contradictions and questions Lomov why he wants to prove that Guess is better than Squeezer as true.