The Three Sisters | Masha Prozorov

Masha Prozorov
Masha's marriage to Kulygin was not a joyful one from the beginning—"They married me when I was eighteen, and I was afraid of my husband because he was a teacher and I was barely out of school," she later explains. Masha is a talented pianist, but she does not play any more because she is bored and disappointed with her life. That changes when she meets Vershinin and begins an affair with him. As she later explains it to her sisters, "At first he seemed strange to me, then I felt sorry for him. . . then I fell in love with him." Masha is happy...

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