Throughout there is the bittersweet, deeply human aura of real people helplessly in thrall to events and feelings beyond their control. Counterpointed against the professor's unrest are the situations of others in the family: his daughter Sonya's unrequited passion for the local doctor, Astrov, who visits often Vanya's love for the professor's young wife and her own unspoken attraction to another. For years the estate, under the management of Uncle Vanya, brother of the professor's first wife, has yielded a modest income, but now, with the professor older and bored, he offers the idea of selling the estate and investing the money in bonds a prospect most unsettling for those who have come to regard the place as their home. The scene is a country estate in the declining days of Czarist Russia, the home of an old and ailing professor, his young wife, and various other family members.
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