I've read Chekhov before, and I have actually done some scenes from this play, but I have never read it until this class. I personally was not a fan of this play, it bored me somewhat. As you know by now, I'm not the biggest reader and Chekhov's writing isn't the easiest thing to look at for a slow and uninterested reader. But the story itself has some good things going on. My favorite character was Ravensky, mainly because she's the protagonist and she is somewhat relate-able: expressing love and just having a generally kind demeanor. I love that she has such a strong connection to the cherry orchard, because i can easily sympathize with her when everything turns upside-down, but she's an adult and needs to realize that it's not the end of the world; that might have been too harsh.
I also love the subtle battle of the modern world versus the unchanging past. Socially, it's a major issue this day in age and I think if people can look into that, they would realize that the world (the U.S. especially) is going this change everyday with politics and government shinnanigans. But overall, I was generally bored throughout this play, and it seemed to move slow; me reading it when I was extremely exhausted doesn't help that, but still, I am not a fan.
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