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In this passage, Lopakhin returns from the auction with news that he has purchased Ranevsky’s estate—and her beautiful cherry orchard. Though Lopakhin criticized the orchards as being frivolous and unremarkable in previous acts, he is clearly overjoyed to be its owner—and, in this monologue, reveals that he has indeed harbored a sentimentality for it all long, albeit in a very different sense than Ranevsky. Lopakhin wants to possess the cherry orchard solely for the purpose of felling it. In doing so he will continue his ravenous, ambitious climb up the socioeconomic ladder. By renting out the land, he will also…
