Study Guide

The Cherry Orchard Characters

By Anton Chekhov

In Act 2, Lopakhin says of Lubov and her brother, "I've never met such frivolous people as you...

Lopakhin is the son of a former serf (essentially a slave) who worked on Lubov's estate. He was a...

When Trofimov speaks, it's hard not hear the voice of Chekhov. He talks about work: "everything...

Lopakhin calls Gaev an old woman, but we think Gaev is more like a big baby. He loves candy,...

Everyone in the play is a little obsessed with Lubov's seventeen-year-old daughter Anya. Dunyasha...

We don't know about you, but if we had to choose to be someone in this play, it wouldn't be...

Chekhov describes Fiers's first entrance like so: "leaning on a stick, [he] walks quickly across...

Pischik, Lubov's landowning neighbor, provides some context for the struggles of Lubov's family....

Epikhodov offers pretty much straight comic relief from his first entrance in Act 1, when he...

Oh, Dunyasha. What a classic story, huh? Maid Runs Afoul of Dashing Young Rogue. And Yasha isn't...

In a play that meticulously strives to show both the good and bad in people, Yasha is pretty much...

Charlotta really doesn't fit in. She cultivates eccentricity, traveling with a little dog and...

Various translations call him various things, but the Passerby plays the same role no matter what...

These uninspiring people appear at the party to the disgust of Fiers, who has retained his high...