<Li> Natalia Stepanovna, his daughter, 25 years old </Li> <Li> Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov, 35 years old, a neighbour of Chubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner </Li> <P> Ivan Vassiliyitch Lomov, a long - time neighbor of Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov, has come to propose marriage to Chubukov's 25 - year - old daughter, Natalia . After he has asked and received joyful permission to marry Natalia, she is invited into the room, and he tries to convey to her the proposal . Lomov is a hypochondriac, and, while trying to make clear his reasons for being there, he gets into an argument with Natalia about The Oxen Meadows, a disputed piece of land between their respective properties, which results in him having "palpitations" and numbness in his leg . After her father notices they are arguing, he joins in, and then sends Ivan out of the house . While Stepan rants about Lomov, he expresses his shock that "this fool dares to make you (Natalia) a proposal of marriage!" She immediately starts into hysterics, begging for her father to bring him back . He does, and Natalia and Ivan get into a second big argument, this time about the superiority of their respective hunting dogs, Guess and Squeezer . Ivan collapses from his exhaustion over arguing, and father and daughter fear he's dead . However, after a few minutes he regains consciousness, and Chubukov all but forces him and his daughter to accept the proposal with a kiss . Immediately following the kiss, the couple gets into another argument . </P> <P> The Proposal was successful in its first runs in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and quickly became popular in small towns across Russia . Tsar Alexander III liked the play when he had it performed for him . Chekhov himself thought farces were not really worth much as literature; before its success, he called The Proposal a "wretched, boring, vulgar little skit". He advised its director, Leontiev, to "roll cigarettes out of it for all I care". </P>

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