 Yuliy Kapitonovich Karandyshev, postal employee and official, is constantly lingering around the main heroine.He loves Larisa, but at the same time he is foolish, poor, painfully selfish and completely uninteresting to the girl herself.All these suitors are overshadowed by Sergei Sergeevich Paratov – a handsome, charming, dandy, frivolous and wealthy gentleman and shipowner.