Identify the detail that best illustrates "The bear" is a farce

Smirnov Challanges popova to a duel

Smirnov agrees to teach Popova how to fire a gun

Popova calls smirnov a bear

Popova agreed to a duel

B. Smirnov agrees to teach Popova how to fire a gun

Explanation:

"The bear" is an one-act comic play by Chekhov.

The play is filled with comical and absurd situations made only to entertain the viewers, without any particular deeper meaning. These features make it a farce.

The play centers around Snirnov, a landowner, who came to Popova, a mourning widower, considering debt her late husband hasn't paid him. After a short dispute, full with funny dialogues, Smirnov challenges her to a duel, which is already a comical situation, since a man is challenging a woman to a duel.

Maybe even more comical is that she accepts this duel.

But, the funniest situation is when Popova asks Smirnov, his enemy in the duel, to teach her how to shoot a revolver, and he accepts, making their duel completely absurd.

Smirnov agrees to teach Popova how to fire a gun.

Explanation:

I love this play and I got this question on an assignment and that was the answer.

it wants you to read whatever it gave you. then compare it to the others you read. you need to use textual evidence, and cite anything you do!

hope this !

~courtney