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Anton Chekhov is the author of both The Cherry Orchard and “A Visit to Friends.” Both works have similar characteristics and are typical of Chekhov’s writing style. Three of these characteristics are the setting of the story, family, and nature. The settin ....

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.... around a single family. The relationships between all of the members of the families are very complex, especially in The Cherry Orchard. The conflict facing each family is the selling of their homes due to bankruptcy. In both stories they look to a rich friend to bail them out. Both families also want this friend to marry one of their members. In “A Visit to Friends” Podgorin is asked to marry Nadezhda and in The Cherry Orchard Lopakhin is asked to marry Varya. Chekhov is able to share his view on family life through both stories. Chekhov’s use of nature is evident in both “A Visit to Friends” and The Cherry Orchard. In The Cherry Orc ....