Pishchik is able to pay off some of his debts. Charlotte complains that she no longer has a position Yepikhodov has a new position with Lopakhin. Lopakhin and Trofimov share a tender farewell as he will return to the university. Madame Ranevskaya leaves the cherry orchard for the last time. He continued the party, though the real host of the party Madame Ranevskaya is not in the mood to celebrate for she is ruined. He is too happy and cannot hide his extreme happiness as he has bought the very estate where her family lived as serfs. Madame Ranevskaya is nervous about the outcome of the auction as the cherry orchard is bought by Lopakhin. Trofimov gets angry at her for her decision to return to her abusive lover in France. At the party, Madame Ranevskaya and Trofimov have a serious conversation about Madame Ranevskaya's extravagance. Madame Ranevskaya thinks to hold a farewell ball party and calls all her friends and relatives. Pishchik takes out loans from Madame Ranevskaya, who herself is sinking deeper in the loan. Madame Ranevskaya is receiving letters from her lover, and Gayev begins to consider a job at a bank.

Meanwhile, strange romances between Anya and Trofimov and Dunysha and Yasha continue, while nothing develops between Lopakhin and Barbara and Dunysha and Yepikhodov. But she rejects the idea and as the spring passes, she finds herself more miserably sank into debt with no solution. In this way she can save her childhood memories in the cherry orchard and pay back the debt too. Lopakhin a former serf, but now a big successful merchant suggests her to make villas on the estate and lease them to the foreigners. If they do not find the solution to pay the mortgage on the cherry orchard estate, it will be auctioned off in August. To overcome Madame Ranevskaya's debt, neither she nor her brother Gayev have money. Many subplots are introduced in the scene of party: a romance between the tutor Trofimov and Anya, another hopeful romance between her sister Barbara and wealthy Lopakhin, a love triangle between the servants Dunysha, Yasha, and Yepikhodov, the debt of the neighbor Pishchik, the class struggles of Lopakhin and Firs, the isolation of Charlotte, etc. Firs is another serf who has maintained the same post even after the liberation. Lopakhin is the born serf, but he has struggled hard to make a successful life. At her party all the major characters are introduced. Lyunov Ranevskaya meets her elder daughter who has been looking after the estate in her absence. On her arrival, all become overjoy and hold a grand party.

During her stay in France, she has fallen into the huge debt. She has left the estate five years ago when her husband died and had gone to France to stay with her abusive lover, who now has abandoned her. Ranevskaya is the mistress of the cherry orchard estate.

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