Act 4 Summary

It is moving day, and everyone is saying their goodbyes. Lopakhin is offering toasts to the former owners, but they don't partake of any. Trofimov will return to the university in Moscow. Lopakhin offers him some money, but he won't accept it as he doesn't need that to be happy. They think that their old servant Firs has been taken to the hospital, but no one seems to know for sure.

There is the sound of chopping, and Anya asks Lopakhin to silence the workers until her mother has left. Lyubov will return to Paris to take care of her husband, but Anya asks her to return soon to build a new life with her. Anya tells her that a new life is beginning and she is happy.

Gayev adds that they had all been ill with anxiety, but once the decision to...