The two men in this play that are radically different are Chebutykin and Andrey. These men are different because their set of mind. Chebutykin is the old doctor that has given up on life because he deems it useless and nothing matters. Andrey is the young husband who thinks too highly of himself and is too self-centered to change his ways. Both ultimately ruin themselves because they are too focused on their way of thinking to realize how they actually fit into the world. The old doctor, Chebutykin, is a man that knows he is going to leave the world soon and is giving up. He tells us that he lives only for the girls and would have died if it weren’t for their existence. Right from the