The Cherry Orchard Home Quotes Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue. We used Julius West's translation.
| Quote #7 ANYA. What have you done to me, Peter? I don't love the cherry orchard as I used to. I loved it so tenderly, I thought there was no better place in the world than our orchard. (2.148) |
Influenced by Trofimov's progressive ideals, Anya has loosened the nostalgic grip of her childhood home. She's growing up, distinguishing herself from her mother.
| Quote #8 LUBOV. I was born here, my father and mother lived here, my grandfather too, I love this house. I couldn't understand my life without that cherry orchard, and if it really must be sold, sell me with it! … My son was drowned here. (3.56) |
Lubov is excitable. She exaggerates. But if we really believe that the orchard defines her, the loss of it is much more tragic.
| Quote #9 LUBOV. I'll sit here one more minute. It's as if I'd never really noticed what the walls and ceilings of this house were like, and now I look at them greedily, with such tender love. (4.105) |
For all her life, Lubov looked at her home as a loved one, so familiar, accepted and dismissed. As she looks for the last time, she tries to consume the house with her eyes, to take it with her.
