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In this passage, Barbara reprimands the family’s clerk Ephikhodof, who has broken a pool cue while playing billiards at Ranevsky’s party. Barbara is angry with Ephikhodof for shirking his status as a servant and playing games during the party as if he were one of the guests. Ephikhodof, a man of a new generation and a new view of the social order, believes it is his right to eat and play games at the party given by his employers if he wants to. His simple statement of his belief enrages Barbara, who, like her mother and her uncle, seems unable—or…