Checkov, The Peasants

Olga’s Hope and Strength Olga Tchikildeyeff is a very powerful character in Anton Chekov’s The Peasants. She is portrayed to have “...old charm and pleasant smile...” (Chekov 70). The life she lives is strong and full of hope. She and the family in The Peasants go through many hardships through the journey of this story. One thing remains constant and the same amid all these problems: Olga’s positive attitude. She seems to have …

…moved with hopes for the future to be a better place than where they have been, but yet always remembering. Olga and Sasha are like a pastor moving to guide more people, to be a sheperd to them. To guide by example in their religion. Olga has hope for the future she will have and has strength from her religion to comfort and guide just as she did in her late husband’s home villiage.