Which quotation from a translation of _Uncle Vanya_ most effectively …

Source Texts

Text

_Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts_ is an 1898 play by Anton Chekhov, originally written in Russian. In the play, Professor Serebrakoff and his wife Helena have come to stay at their country estate, which Vanya manages with the help of Sonia, the professor's daughter from a previous marriage. Chekhov portrays the relationship between Vanya and Professor Serebrakoff as being much more strained than it once was, as is evident when ______

Which quotation from a translation of _Uncle Vanya_ most effectively illustrates the claim?

Professor Serebrakoff asks Vanya to leave the room, saying, "For the sake of our former friendship do not protest against going. We will talk some other time."

Vanya says to Professor Serebrakoff, "For twenty-five years I have managed [the country estate], and have sent you the returns from it like the most honest of servants, and you have never given me one single word of thanks for my work, not one—neither in my youth nor now."

Vanya says of Professor Serebrakoff, "He is everlastingly whining about his hard lot, though, as a matter of fact, he is extraordinarily lucky."

Professor Serebrakoff says to Helena, "It is funny that everybody listens to [Vanya] and his old idiot of a mother, but the moment I open my lips you all begin to feel ill-treated."