Question

"oh, what burden, lord, to be father of a grown up daughter" - Who is the father? who is the daughter? why is the daughter a burden to the father?​

Answer 1

Answer:

A grown-up daughter has to be married off to a good bridegroom and every father has that huge responsibility. Until his daughter's marriage is done, he suffers from it as if the grown-up girl is a burden to him. Here Chubukov is not exception at all. He is very much desperate to finish off the of matter his daughter's marriage. Lomov propose Natalya for marriage. But twice Lomov and Natalya involves into argument before Lomov proposes her. Even Chubukov argues with Lomov severely marriage proposal. So it seems difficult to arrange Natalya's marriage. considers his daughter Natalya comes to forgetting the So, Chubukov as a burden.