Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -Why does Chekhov choose only three characters to deliver his message to us?
In the one-act play The Proposal”, Anton Chekhov uses only three characters so that the message he wants to convey is intensified and does not get diluted. The three characters have been used so effectively that the play truly serves its purpose. It is through the interaction of these three characters that the play satirises the upper class society, courtship and marriage. If the playwright crowded the play with numerous characters, it would have unnecessarily complicated the plot. Hence, Chekhov has concentrated upon these three characters, whom he has sketched with such perfection that they never cease to entertain us with their antics and dialogues sparkling with wit and humour.