“Oh, What a burden lord to be father of a grown-up daughter”—Who mkes the remark and who is the daughter? Why does the speaker think that grown-up daughter is a burden?

Answer:    In the one-act play The Proposal by Anton Chekhov, Chubukov makes the remark.

 Here the grown-up daughter is Natalya.

 A grown-up daughter has to be married off to a good bridegroom and every father has that huge responsibility. Until his daughter’s marriage is done, he suffers from it as if the grown-up girl is a burden to him. Here Chubukov is not exception at all. He is very much desperate to finish off the matter of his daughter’s marriage. Lomov comes to propose Natalya for marriage. But twice Lomov and Natalya involves into argument before Lomov proposes her. Even Chubukov argues with Lomov severely forgetting the marriage proposal. So it seems difficult to arrange Natalya’s marriage. So, Chubukov considers his daughter Natalya as a burden.