"The Sonia smashing cups over nothing in the first scene has little resemblance to the Sonia we see later in the show."
Interesting, I never thought of it that way. My take is that Sonia has a lot of anger in her, much of it in regard to Masha, but also in regard to other aspects of her (Sonia's) life. At the beginning of the play, that anger comes out in the form of her smashing coffee cups, later she expresses some of her anger verbally, and eventually I think her anger begins to fade when she very unexpectedly meets a man who's interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with her, and also when it turns out that the house will not be sold out from under her and her brother. |
