... is very important because he underlines Russia's newfound class mobility. He is a former serf but now proud owner of the house neighboring the Cherry Orchard. Lopakhin points out the irony of the situation developing in Russia: he is now a rich man and a landowner and treats his aristocratic neighbor, Madame Ranevsky, as an equal. The position of the characters in a unclear social class ladder are very ambiguous however. A confusion created mostly by ... the different patterns of their behavior: for example Lopakhin considering himself a "peasant of the peasants" but then reproaches Dun...

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