character sketch of lomov
10th english chapter proposal
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Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov is a long time neighbour of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov in the play The Proposal' written by Anton Chekhov. He is a 35-year-old bachelor. The playwright further describes him as a large and hearty, but a very suspicious landowner. He is a stock character. He is a hypochondriac who is obsessed with his imaginary illness and spends sleepless nights. It is through him that Chekhov satirises the attitude of the Russian upper-middle-class society towards marriage. Lomov chooses "a quiet and regular life" instead of searching for ideal or real love. Hence he decides to marry Natalya. Later he gets involved in continual arguments with her. His hesitation and nervousness in uttering the marriage proposal is funny and hilarious. Lomov's illness is a representation of the diseased society. It indicates individual frailty as well as social degeneration.
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