Gautama Buddha began life as a Prince named Siddhartha Gautama. At twelve he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures. Four years later he was married. One day he went out for hunting. There he saw a sick man, an aged man, a general processioned and finally a monk begging for alms. These rights moved him so much that he at once decided to seek enlightens about the sorrows he had witnessed. He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree. He got enlightened after seven days and become the Buddha.

1. Lomov is the speaker.
2. He wants to marry because he is already 35 and wants to lead quiet and regular life.
3. Quiet.
4. My late aunt and her husband, from whom as you know, I inherited my land, always had the greatest respect for your father and your late mother. The Lomovs and the Chubukovs have always had the most friendly and I might almost say the most affectionate, regard for each other.

Natalya is the daughter of a farmer, chubukov. She is twenty five years old. She is talkative and short tempered. She is very much concerned about her family’s honour and land. She argues with Lomov about the ownership of Oxen Meadows and the superiority of her dog squeezer. She is desperate to marry him. She asks her father to call him back.