person
Liza's mother
the mother-in-law
also: теща
Liza's unnamed mother, the title's self-appointed "lawyer," who argues her daughter's case against Michel with courtroom rhetoric but really just wants her back in society.
Reading notes
- The Lawyer Mother-in-Law §1 mother-in-law
Liza's unnamed mother, the title's self-appointed "lawyer" for her daughter's marriage; she argues Michel's supposed cruelty with the rhetorical zeal of a courtroom advocate, though her real aim, revealed by story's end, is simply to get Liza back into society.