Anton Checkov’s “The Lottery Ticket” Scene 1 at Home Narrator : Ivan Dmitrich is a middle class man with a satisfactory salary of 12 hundred per annum. He and his family always have a wanting mind. [The camera opens with the lottery ticket and the show dims with Ivan reading a newspaper] Mrs.Ivan : I forgot to look at the newspaper today. Look if our ticket number is there. Ivan : It’s yours .[Mrs.Ivan scoffs] she knows nothing about money and so she is stingy. If she won it she would give me a hundred roubles and put the rest away under lock and key Mrs.Ivan : what’s the number! Ivan : [reads without wearing his glasses] series 9,499 number 26. Mrs.Ivan : what? [asks with excitement] Ivan : yes! It’s 9499 and 26 [doubtfully squeezing eyes] what’s in that? Mrs.Ivan : Ivan, that’s our number, no no no my number. Ivan : Are you sure? Mrs.Ivan : yes! It is. [Mr.Ivan gets up from sofa and looks as if he gets