The Cherry Orchard Act II - Interpretations

The advantage of an author is to creat and give specific meanings to the reader. However, the reader can decide weather to interpret what the author is saying or intrepret it in a different way. Interpretations will affect the complet story. For example in The Fighter (movie) Dicky (Bale) is Micky`s (Wahlberg) brother and trainer. David O. Russel the director, interprets Dicky as the bad guy of the story. Dicky misses practices with Micky and is in a constant drug abuse. However he is just trying to do his job by helping Micky win The Tittle. In this movie Dicky is shown as the bad guy but, I interpreted him as a good guy because he had self managment dificulties and he just wanted the best for his brother. Dicky was doing his job.

In comparison with The Cherry Orchard Lopakhin is interpreted as the bad guy because he wants to sell the Cherry Orchard and get some use out of it. Here is when Lopakhin tells Andreyvena about a client for the Cherry Orchard: "That rich man, Deriganov, is prepared to buy the state" (II.349). Chekhov may interpret him as the bad guy because Andreyvena`s answers shows pittyness when she tries to avoid the subject and says she but recieve money: "Our aunt... promised to send us something... ten or fifteen thousand, and we`ll be thankful for that." (II.349) In this quote Chekhov may want to interpret Lopakhin as the bad guy because of the humbleness that Andreyvena shows. However I do not see Lopakhin as the bad guy, he is just doing his job as a Merchant. Just like Dicky he is doing his job eventhoug there are difficulties. Andreyvena making Lopakhin look bad and Charlene (Adams)making Dicky look bad. Still we have to consider that this completley different situations.