Chubukov’s character sketch

The full name of Chubukov was " Stephan Chubukov". Chubukov is one of the three characters in the
one act play “The Proposal" by Anton Chekhov. He represents a typical rich landlord of nineteenth
century Russia. Chubukov is a caring, sensible father to both Natalya and his business”. He seems to
be fairly rich and resourceful. Even his neighbour Lomov acknowledges the frequent help rendered
to him by Chubukov .He lands his threshing machine to Lomov .On account of this help, he has to put
off their own threshing till November.
Chubukov is a wealthy, but greedy person past his prime and father of an unmarried daughter. He is a
stupid and quarrelsome individual, who is rather unfriendly towards Lomov, his immediate
neighbour. Chubukov is adept in the art of pretence. On seeing Lomov at his door, he pretends to be
happy and asks him the reason of his visit. He conjectures to himself that Lomov has come to borrow
money but asserts he “shan’t give him any.” However he is a hypocrite and feigns to be very cordial
an asks him, “What is it, beauty”
As a father, Chubukov feels his responsibility to marry off his daughter. He cares for her but many
times, in the heat of the moment, he overlooks her interest and behaves in an immature manner. He
hurls abuses at the man who has come to propose his daughter, Natalya. .He calls Lomov ‘’a
landgrabber”and “villain
Chubukov is a short- tempered fellow. Natalya’s hysteria on learning that Lomov had come to
propose her but has gone away annoyed, makes him lose his cool, and out of sheer anger he curses
himself and all fathers of grown-up daughter however, towards the end of the end of the play, when
a bit of sanity prevails over him, he hurriedly makes the proposal materialise without the proper
consent of Lomov and Natalya.. Like all business deals, he even looks for the lucrative aspects in
Natalya's marriage. Her emotions do not matter to him. He is ready to get his daughter married to
Lomov. Just for the money and property he owns and not for the person he is. Chubukov forces
Lomov to marry her without any further delay. In no time, he manages to convince a confused
Lomov. But then again, they stand fighting over petty cases. This time, Chubukov raises a Champagne
to ask to shout them down. Throughout the play, he is the only person who is highly motivated
towards the marriage, as he could hardly overlook the monetary benefits. So, as a humanitarian
father, he fails, fails miserably.
He was always like a antagonistic man. But while talking to others he was always politely. Even he
welcome the man name "Lomov' very kindly who comes to proposed his daughter at first. The
Chubukov was the greedy man when it's comes to a match for his daughter. But he was also
considered a loving father.

Character sketch of Lomov

Lomov is the pivotal character in the one act play “The proposal” since play revolves round the
proposal offered by Lomov for Chubukov’s daughter, Natalya. He is a pretentious, proud, self seroing
argumentative, impetuous, hysterical hypochondriac. As wealthy landowner, he comes to his
neighbour with the overt intentions of marriage, but he really wishes to expend his own land
boundaries.

In his farce, Checkhov ridiculer him for whom marriage was more a land deal than a love match.
Having long been the neighbour of Stephan, Lomov comes to him in formal attire and speaks with
stilted language when his neighbour warmly urges him to sit down, “No, I have no argument except
with you, Stepanovitch”. After he formally asked him for “The hand of your daughter Natalya
Stepanovna”.
Talking to himself, he enumerates all the physical changes he undergoes- his years roar as though his
blood pressure is rising, he worries about his weak heart, he ponders his ailments that prevent a
good night’s sleep, he is already 35. He approaches his proposal of marriage impetuously as the land
deal that he considers it, mentioning that his meadows reach to her Birchwood trees. This mention,
however, sparks a heated argument as Natalya retorts that the meadows belong to her family.
Lomov is a hypochondriac who wants to get married for the sake of appearances. He doesn’t seem to
love Natalya but decides to marry her because she is the woman available. He has difficulty coming
point, which makes eanversing with him difficult. Because of his tendency to digress, he becomes
involved in silly arguments with Natalya and Chubokov about land ownership and dogs. What seems
the most important to him is maintaining a superior appearance which is also true of the other two
characters.
CHARACTERSKETCH OF NATALYA
The dramatist portrays Natalya more as a character who with Lomov helps to develop the middle the
comic scenes of the play than as a heroine of this one act play. The ‘love-sick’ Cat, Natalya does not
even know Lomov’s reason of arrival to her house in the very beginning of the play, rather engages
herself in a quarrel with Lomov over oxen meadows and guess versus squeezer.

Natalya is the twenty year old daughter of Stepan Chubukov, a landowner. She is garrulous,
quarrelsome and money minded woman who is so possessive by nature that in no case, is she
prepared to leave her claim, rightful or otherwise, over “oxen meadows”, a stretch of land.
She has reached a stage where she is so desperate to get married that she would accept anybody as
her husband. According to her father, Chubukov, “She is a love-sick Cat.” But when it comes to
quarrelling, in a fit of agitation, she forgets that her foolish behaviour could project her as a
bad-tempered woman and jeopardise her prospect of matrimony. Lomov considers her to be an
excellent housekeeper, not bad looking and well- educated.

Natalya’s basic aim is to tie the nuptial knot, even if her husband is an ailing and stubborn person like
Lomov. However, egoist, as she is, she picks up a quarrel once again with Lomov regarding the
superiority of her dog, Squeezer, forgetting all about the proposal which needed to be given the top
priority. This shows that Natalya is foolish, short-sighted and immature. Her behaviour is childish and
she treats Lomov really bad. But when there is a threat to her matrimonial prospect, she pretends to
swoon. Thus, Natalya is every inch a comical character