... enough for her own mortgage. It is a situation where the Russian aristocracy is dying and do not realize that they no longer posses an economic position with long-term security and in the case of The Cherry Orchard, this fact is witnessed by the lack of serious interest that the aristocrats give to the seriousness of the threat of losing the Cherry Orchard. The lack of their interest shows their inability to adapt ... to a changing society. The changes in class in Russia are made more evident in act III of the play when Lopakhin, the former serf, purchases the Cherry Orchard, leaving Ma...

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