ABSTRACT
In the fourth act of The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov makes magnificent use of undramatic things as the weather, walls and ceilings, windows, a bottle of champagne, a pair of old galoshes, an umbrella, to disclose the innermost feelings of his characters with greater dramatic force than the conventional use of the soliloquy which he completely dispenses with in his last play. The fourth act opens on a cold and sunny October morning in the nursery, a little over a month after the sale of the cherry orchard and about half an hour before the departure of its former owners. Lopakhin had bought a bottle of champagne at the railway station on a sudden impulse in the hope that a toast to the happiness of the brother and sister would make Lyubov’s departure less painful. Trofimov’s search for his galoshes provided a good insight into Varya’s mind before and after her meeting with Lopakhin.
