.After talking with Nina and seeing the dead sea gull, Trigorin tells her he wrote the following in his notebook: "Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here."
.......After Trigorin's notes foreshadow what he later does to Nina.