Q. Give the character-sketch of Natalya.
Ans. Natalya is a girl of twenty-five years. She lives in the neighbourhood of Lomov. Even, she is a good housekeeper, and is not bad-looking. She is still unmarried, and is thirsting for love. That's why, her father calls her a lovesick cat.
Lomov says that she is well-educated, but she doesn't seem to be so. She is very quarrelsome and abusive by nature. Natalya begins a bitter quarrel with Lomov over a piece of land that has little value and when she learns that Lomov had come to propose to her, she forgets all about fairness and unfairness and begins to wail over the lost chance and she forces her father to call him back but when Lomov comes back, she again picks a quarrel with him. Lomov becomes so excited that he faints. She cries to her father to call a doctor but Lomov comes to himself, she says, "Yes, yes, I'm willing." Thus she accepts the proposal even without being made.
Natalya is not a character from real life and this play is a farce and Natalya, too, is a farcical character
