The Marriage Proposal
By: Anton Chekov
The Summary

There’s a farmer named Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov who lived with his daughter Natalya Stepanovna. They lived with their neighbor named Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov.
One day Lomov going to visit his neighbor house, Chubukov. Lomov wanted to marry Chubukov’s daughter, Natalya. Chubukov was covered with extreme happiness when he heard that kind of surprise. Then he directly ran to called Natalya about this great moment. When Chubukov left Lomov alone, Lomov’s sickness controlled himself. He spoke to air like a crazy and the worst thing is he worried about many thing unhappened and that’s made his right eyebrow twitching. He walked around the room, sometimes he drank his water to calm down his sickness. He almost jump when Natalya came to the room. Lomov tried to controlled himself and said about what was he visiting for. Unfortunately, Lomov was nervous, he said so many thing but not about his purpose. Then he said about the Oxen Meadows. Both of them had a debate about Oxen Meadows. Lomov believed that the Oxen Meadows was his because his family had it for a long time ago and he had the official document that strengthen his argument of Oxen Meadows are his. Natalya also made an argument, she believed that her grandfather and her great-grandfather had a Burnt Marsh which including Oxen Meadows too. They were arguing each other hardly. Then when both of them had a hard debate, Chubukov entered the room. Natalya directly searching a help from her daddy and Chubukov also get a hard debate with Lomov. Two versus one. Lomov was reached his limit so he said many yelled, shout, improper words to Chubukov and so do Chubukov. At that time, both of them forgotten about a friendship value that was became the neighbor bonds. Then Lomov sickness controlled again his mind. Finally, Lomov staggers out from Chubukov’s house and he tried to go to court. The irony things is Natalya didn’t know that Lomov’s came to proposed her.
After Chubukov ran to bring Lomov back, Natalya saying an apology to him. Here, the next debate also began. The next debate topic was about the first-rate dog they had. Natalya said that her dog, Squeezer was better than Lomov’s dog, Guess. They began shouting each other again when Chubukov entered the room heard the noises. Chubukov again and again got the debate with Lomov too. Two versus one again. They began yelled, shouted, cursed improper words. Suddenly, Lomov sickness came again, controlled his mind and this time his body also. He fell in armchair and fainted. Chubukov this time, was reach his limit too, he was out of energy but he remembered about the marriage proposal Lomov’s said. He directly put Lomov’s hand to Natalya’s hand then persuade Lomov’s, even still confuse after healed and Natalya was worried if Lomov dead. Finally, Lomov and Natalya officially became husband and wife even they were still debating aech other about whose dog was the best.

~ The End ~

Summary by:
Muhammad Suluh Jati/ 105110100111005