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The Seagull, written in 1896, is the first of what are generally considered to be Anton Chekhov's four major plays.
It centers on the romantic and artistic conflicts between four theatrical characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading leading lady Irina Arkadina, her son the experimental playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.
Trigorin sees the seagull and muses on how he could use it as a subject for a short story: "A young girl lives all her life on the shore of a lake.