Is there a moment in the middle of the play where someone watching it might think that the main character is finally going to get his desire only to see him delayed in getting it again?

Please use the following book/reference: Chekov’s One Act Play The Proposal

1. The main character is the person who is in all or nearly all the scenes in the play. By this definition who is the main character of The Proposal?
2. One of the key techniques or ‘concepts of craft” of playwriting is “desire and delay.” What is the main character’s desire? On only the first page name at least 2 ways that his desire is delayed him?
3. A key way to build character is to give a character’s history. Give two examples where we get the main character’s history in the first five pages of the play (give the page number, who is speaking and the first sentence of what heshe says.)
4. Another key technique of advancing the plot is called “escalation.” It is when the action of the play gradually (or sometimes not so gradually) intensifies or escalates (it can either get better or get worse but it doesn’t stay steady)
Give the steps in how our main character’s health gradually declines (give the first mention of his illness and then give two moments in the middle of the play where his illness intensifes and then look at the last couple of pages to see the most intense expression of that illness. Explain below.
Dialogue: There are several dialogue techniques that playwrights regularly employ. Often beginning writers will make dialogue into a pinball match A speaks then B speaks then A speaks then B speaks. But when you look at experienced writers, they do a number of things to break up the ping-pong rhythm.
They might have a character respond with action instead of speech or silence instead of speech.
5. Find one example where a character speaks but the other character does not immediately respond with speech but rather with action.
6. Find one example where a character speaks but the other character does not immediately respond with speech but rather with silence.
7. Is there a moment in the middle of the play where someone watching it might think that the main character is finally going to get his desire only to see him delayed in getting it again? What is that moment in this play?
Group Two (Last name beginning with L-Z) will answer the following question:
• Does the argument about the dogs delay the main character’s desire? How?
• How does the argument about the land escalate from its beginning to its end(try to find at least 5 ways (this might be difficult do your best!)

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