“Why yell like that”—Who said this and to whom? What was that other person trying to prove? Bring out the incident.

Answer:    In the one act play The Proposal by Anton Chekhov, Chubukov said this to Lomov.

 Lomov came to Natalya’s house to propose her for marriage. But before conveying his proposal, Lomov got involved into argument with her over the ownership of a disputed land called Oxen Meadows. Here Lomov tried to prove that the oxen meadows belong to him giving many oral proofs.

 Hearing the argument, Natalya’s father Chubukov came on the spot and when Chubukov failed to calm Lomov, he also became heated and Chubukov was heard to remark that he would not give up his own land and would not want anything of others. He ordered him to stop his mouth and threatened him to send his peasants to the meadows to occupy it.