person
Manechka Chikamasova
Manechka
also: Marie, Манечка
The Chikamasovs' only daughter, about nineteen at the narrator's first visit, who repeatedly insists she will never marry even as her mother sews her a dowry; by the story's end she has vanished from the house entirely.
Reading notes
- The Dowry §14 Manechka
The colonel's daughter, about nineteen at the story's start; her unspoken hope of marriage, contradicted by her repeated protestations that she will never marry, is the story's quiet emotional line.