down my soul. Then, last year, when my villa was sold to pay my debts, I went off to Paris, and he came and robbed me of everything, myself…. It was all so stupid, so humiliating…. Then suddenly I longed to be back in Russia, in my own country, with my little girl.Accordingly, the cherry orchard is a particular place and yet it is more. It represents an inextricable tangle of sentiments, which together compromise a way of life and an attitude to life. By the persistent feelings shown towards it, at one extreme by Trophimof, the intellectual for whom it is the image of slavery and repression; by Lopakhin, the business man and spokesman for hard economic facts, the one who thinks of it primarily as a means to a wiser investment, and by Madame Ranvesky, who sees in it her childhood happiness; it is seen from these characters that are woven by their brilliant selection.Thus, The Cherry Orchard is simplistic, yet complicated at the same time. It has poetic strength and is naturalistically composed, which makes it all the more controversial. The interweaving in the play, the relationships between one generation and another, between the sexes, and ranking of different social classes add to The Cherry Orchard’s interesting balance. It is not hard for one to see why The Cherry Orchard is considered to be Anton Chekhov’s greatest work, and why it shall remain a classic for many years to come....
