Uncle Vania Act I

In Uncle Vania's first act, an optimistic view on life is portrayed by Voinsitsky and Telegin which contrasts doctor Serebryakov's. However, they are not optimistic towards Serebryakov's habits and his ungratefulness to them. Through Voinsitsky's views Chekhov makes criticisms to the "studious and illustrated" men from the high society who don't know about anything and when Voinsitsky claims that "He (Serebryakov) has retired, and not a single living soul knows who he is, he is absolutely unknown; which means that for twenty-five years he has held some other man's job. And look at him: he struts about like a demigod!"(Act1). This is a strong critic against so called writers and studious men who do nothing in their lives and think of themselves as the discoverers of knowledge.
Other thing that brought up my attention is how Serebryakov and his daughter are always complaining about their situation without taking into account the incommodities they are making pass to their hosts. I feel more sympathetic to Elena but still I can't understand why is she together with and old, unsuccessful and whining old man. I would like that further in the story Elena and Voinsitsky ended up together. I think something like that does happen, but they just seem perfect for each other, and since Voinsitsky has showed how he likes her and feels envious from Serebryakov, it could be a nice ending for the novel. The play, up to now has seemed to me very realistic and tranquil, I don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in it.
I found it both humorous but impolite how Voinsitsky told his mother to be quiet in page 170. I think Voinsitsky is upset because he has seen with Serebryakov what he doesn't want to become and what he was becoming before when he studied so much. Uncle Vania is afraid of becoming an old, unsuccessful, unlucky and unhappy man.
As I continued reading the play I started liking less Uncle Vania, I thought he was the one that was pessimistic and always complaining about his situation. Something that called my attention was the mentioning of the inner destruction in man by Elena, she is young, idealist and likes to protect life, nature and earth. On the other hand, the rest of the men like Voinsitsky are old and destructing, Elena mentioned the instinct of destruction before Freud had published the book that would explain this instinct more deeply: "El malestar en la cultura.” This is something that surprised me because Chekhov had the same feeling that there was an instinct of destruction in man before Freud discovered it.