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How would you describe Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov’s character in Anton Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal? 

How would you describe Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov’s character in Anton Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal?

 

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A ridiculous figure befitting farce, Ivan Vassilievich Lomov is a personnage whose defining character is his lack of character. For his attempts to prove his manliness fail as he seeks a wife to care for him,

"I must live a well regulated life.  I have a weak heart, continual pappitations, and I am very sensitive and always getting excited...But the worst of all is sleep! I hardly lie down and begin to doze before....I jump up like a madman, walk about a little , lie down again.... And so it is all night long!"

A hypochodriac, Lomov is a ridiculous fellow.  When he attempts to propose, he sputters and murmurs about the coldness of the air. Then, when he mentions the meadows, Natalia overpowers him in argument and he reaches fearfully for water as the argument degenerates into family name-calling. 

After he departs, Natalia has her father call Lomov back; although he returns he complains of his leg and side and his heart palpitations. Then, with his disputatious procliviity, he recommences his arguing and name-calling with Natalia, not realizing that such confrontations will increase after they marry.

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