Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -What change of behaviour and tone do you notice in Natalya as she heard that Lomov’s actual intention was to propose to her for marriage?
Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov had come to Chubukov’s house to propose marriage to his daughter Natalya but things turned ugly and he did not get the opportunity to convey his desire to her.
He accidentally got involved in a bitter squabble over property ownership with Natalya and her father. When Lomov left their house angrily, Chubukov blurted out that Lomov had come with a marriage proposal, At once Natalya changed her behaviour and tone of talking. She wailed hysterically to call him back and screamed that she was dying.
Suddenly she became too eager to get married to Lomov. Thus Chekhov points out the deception underlying courtship and marriage for Natalya who suddenly became extremely zealous to marry the man whom she and her father had been abusing all along. They even insulted his dead ancestors. But as he had come with a marriage proposal, she was as willing to have him back, since marriage was the only way for her to secure her future.