# Yevgeny Dorn — The Seagull character guide

> Yevgeny Dorn in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dorn, Yevgeny Sergeitch

**First appearance:** 0001-the-seagull

## Snapshot

The country doctor everyone confides in, who has spent thirty years patching bodies and now answers every complaint with a shrug and a hummed romance.

## Who they are

Dorn is the estate's calm centre: he doses Sorin, listens to Treplev's account of Nina's ruin, and admits he saved only two thousand roubles in a lifetime of practice. He meets Sorin's regret with the cool claim that the fear of death is merely animal and must be overcome. His detached, mildly amused realism gives the play its measuring voice — the man who sees everything and commits to nothing.

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