Anna is the wife of the Mayor, mother of Marya. She is very inquisitive and fatuitous. She competes with her daughter Marya for Hlestakov’s attention.
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She is ambitious and vainglorious. She appears absurd in her pre-occupation with change of clothes and other accessories, and she is a good example of moral decadence which pervades the society.
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