Time


In "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov there is much emphasis on movement and time throughout the story. Chekhov uses time and movement throughout his four comedy act to show the back story. Lyuba Ranyevekaya is the main character who owns the estate where the cherry orchards are located on. She is close to losing her estate, therefore, she must sell her house along with the orchard.  In the first act of the story Lyuba returns home from a trip to a world for which she is not familiar. Everything that was once familiar to her seems mysterious, however, her and her daughters reference the orchard several times throughout the story. I think the orchard is symbolic to a time where the family was once rich, and as time passed they became poor due to mismanagement of money and in essence time. "The Cherry Orchard" is really all the family has and once that is gone, there will be nothing left but time.

Lyuba also references over the course of time the mistakes she has made as a woman. In Act 2 of the story, she is reminiscing over the time span of her life. “All my sin… I have always wasted money, just thrown it away like a madwoman, and I married a man who never paid a bill in his life”(Chektov 938).  This is a good example of her looking back and realizing the life she had and towards the ends  of the story the life that is waiting for her once she sells her entire estate. No more is the estate Lyuba’s home nor “The Cherry Orchard” her solitude.
 
 
                                                                       Works Cited

Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." The Norton Anthology of World
     Literature. Ed. Martin Puchner, et al. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 2013.
     917-960. Print.

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