After reading Act 1 of Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, I feel my analyze-and-detect-literature-similar-to-Pride-and-Prejudice-to-establish-a-preemptive-strike-slash-boycott-slash-mental-slash-emotional-preparedness sensor go off.
The first sign arrived when Dunyasha eagerly tells Anya how "the clerk, Yepikhodov, proposed to me just after Easter" (319). Anya confirmed my first fear with an indifferent reaction I feel I will share later on when complaining how "you always talk about the same thing..." (319).
My alarm peaked when Varya tells Anya, "if we could marry you to a rich man, I'd be at peace" (321). In an attempt to mimic the strategy I devised to survive Pride and Prejudice, all my energy desperately focuses on the finding the play's positive traits.
The defining moment arrived when Gayev criticizes how one of his aunts "married a lawyer, not a nobleman ... She married beneath her, and it cannot be said that that she has conducted herself very virtuously ... [and] you must admit she leads a sinful life" (333).
By this point, I could only focus on keeping my imaginable emotion from depleting, and I couldn't help but compare the narrator's highly-energetic indicators to a mockery of unrealistic, exaggerated emotions in modern text conversations. (Link soon to come)
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