![]() ![]() Though he loves his wife deeply, she is unhappy in the marriage. Fyodor Kuliginįyodor Kuligin is a schoolteacher and Masha’s husband. His departure at the end of the play causes Masha's heart to break. When Vershinin comes to town, she falls in love with him almost instantly, and they begin an affair. She always wears black, a color choice which matches her rather dour attitude. She feels that her life is tedious and dull, and she is most disappointed with her provincial and simple-minded husband, the schoolteacher Kulygin. ![]() She is smart and introspective, but also capricious and sometimes ruthless with the people around her. She agrees to marry the baron, Tusenbach, even though she does not love him, because she knows he will be a devoted and loving husband. Throughout the play, she longs for a happy life, but often finds herself contending with the disappointments of adulthood and aging. She has a consciousness of her family's privilege and sees that the only way out of the malaise of her existential crisis is to keep herself occupied. She is a kind and benevolent person and believes that if one wants to satisfy the requirements of a good life, one should work day and night. ![]() Irina is the youngest of the three Prosozov sisters. ![]()
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