This is also the case in "The Cherry Orchard": objects as the nursery room, the bookcase and the cherry orchard take on their own symbolic life. They all share one thing in common: each one reveals something of the characters' personalities, feelings and ideals. These inanimate objects are a reflection of the characters' inner states of being. The meaning of these inanimate objects are changing analogously with the characters' change of mood, perspective and state of mind. Thus one gets the impression that the objects are more like persons, since it is only the characters' life, which makes and keeps them alive.

'The cherry orchard after the sale' thus becomes a symbol for renewal and a new beginning for the life of each character in the play: Lopakhin purchasing the estate got able to get rid of his origins. "Gay with life and wealth" (p.344), he has freed himself from being only the grandson and son of serfs, who used to work on this estate. Now he has become the owner of that place and with the cutting down of the cherry orchard, he is going to leave his past and origins behind him, creating a "new living world" (p.384). Also Liuba's "burden" (p.348) of the past seems now to have become lighter; "her nerves are better" (p.391) and she is going to leave for Paris, since she might have recognized that it's finished long ago [and] that there is no turning back"(p.375). Gayev has finally "calmed down" (p.391), too and is going to be an employee of a bank. Varia is going to leave for a new job, and Ania and Trofimov are gladly stepping towards their "new life" (p.391). Also the rest of the characters have to start a new life in a new place. When they leave [-] there won't be a soul in this place" (p.397) anymore. Maybe not in this place, that's true, but for sure in another place, since there are in the world "many, many wonderful places" (p.367/368), on which one can "plant a new orchard" (p.385).

For Liuba the nursery room symbolizes her "innocent childhood" (p.347). Being in this room, in which "she used to sleep when she was little" (p.336) seems to bring her back to feel a part of that secure, carefree life and makes her feel "little again"(p.336). The bookcase has the same effect on her; all her troubles seem to be far away and she feels pure "happiness" (p.342). Gayevs' 'relationship' to the bookcase is less personal, as he doesn't associate a particular personal memory with it. He considers it rather as an object, which has its own personality; hence, though it is "

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