Personality/Character traits, which both Madame Liubov in The cherry orchard and Madame Aubain in the simple Heart display or have in common

Conscientiousness: Both Madame Liubov Rananevsky and Madame Aubain are portrayed as hardworking individualsn sustain themselves and keep their normal lives going on as usual. As much as the two women face financial and emotional drawbacks, they can get back on their feet and move on with life behaving as if nothing had happened. They are individuals that other people can depend on, and they act dutifully by ensuring that the people under them are behaving responsibly. Madame Rananevsky by all means possible even after she loses her money. Despite failing on several occasions, Madame Rananevsky has a hidden quality of being dutiful, which is redeemed by her generosity. She is after giving her love freely to everyone around her in spite of having little money left. As such, this makes her look like she does not comprehend the importance of money as well as understanding her financial or business matters.

Even though Madame Aubain been widowed and left to deal with huge debts and take care of her two little children, she does not take pleasure in confusion and the encroaching poverty. Rather, she puts more effort into developing ways to feed and take care of her children and other people under her. She has been supporting her servant; Felicite Barette for 50 years and at the same time manages her wealth in such a way that she never experiences bankruptcy. However, when financial problems emerge, Madame Aubain sells most of her property to sustain her family’s needs and works harder for a better life, although she is still wealthy.

Pride: Madame Renevsky represents the pride of the old aristocracy by being authoritative because she knows that she is a public figure in the society. The society has always known her as a rich woman who owns land. In addition, Madame Renevsky is a spendthrift as she prefers to borrow money in order to spend just like she used to do when she was rich, driving her deeper into debts. She loans money to Pischik, over tips the waiters in clubs, gives the homeless man a gold piece, and Gaev rebukes her for giving a whole purse to peasants. As much as  Madame Rananevsky is generous, she does not take into consideration the fact that all her money is gone and that her pride is slowly ‘killing’ her.

On the other hand, Madame Aubain is proud to belong to a powerful community, the bourgeoisie that is associated with people that have a lot of money. Pride never escapes such a woman with money, and who knows that other people envy her because she has something that other people wants. She is educated and a representation of power in the society with the ability to freely define what she wants her life to look like in future.

Stubborn and irrational: Both characters express some level of stubbornness as they fail to grasp the reality of the present. Madame Renevsky makes several choices that sabotage her emotional, financial and her general well-being like marrying a man who is an extreme drunk. She then takes another man in Paris, who depletes all her finances and without grasping the seriousness of her financial straits, she borrows money and squanders it. Madame Renevsky behaves as if a god will intervene, lead her to a pot of gold, and give her youth back. She dwells in her past, ignores the unsettling reality, and does not accept the fact that her age of nobility and life full of privileges is dwindling. Madame Renevsky does nothing to save her property, and when she loses it all, she goes back to the same man who put her in that situation.

As for Madame Aubain, apart from being gentle sometimes and other times harsh, she is a widow who is steal holding on to the sorrows of losing her husband. She lets this past continuously haunt her throughout her life, that it can also be felt in her house. Following the death of Virginie, Madame Aubain finds it difficult to understand the nature of death or what happens after someone has died.

The pair of female characters bests described as believably strong women

Despite the changes in the social, economic, and cultural aspects around Madame Rananevsky and Madame Aubain, the two women can work their way out and handle these problems. As such,

Works Cited

Lawall, Sarah N. The Norton Anthology of World Literatures: 1650 to the Present: Package 2. W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. Print.