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299 The Cherry Orchard

The History of Literature

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I Can't Approve of Our Climate

Chekhov was very concerned about not making the merchant too much of a bad guy. He wanted him to be just sort of an inevitable part of the economic changes that were happening. These like ancillary characters who are kind of like waiting for the sister and the brother, which starts with the maid and the merchant. The opening of the play really has this pull of history because it's more the setting than the main characters.

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