The banker is repulsed by his own earlier motives to murder the lawyer in order to save himself from financial ruin. Now, he feels "a great contempt for himself" for what the lawyer has endured and for his own overriding avarice. During his 15 year confinement the lawyer learns that money, material possessions have no long term value.
In Chekhov's " The Bet ," the banker and the lawyer both learn the futility of their wager, as they have found that life and its conditions differ greatly from their more youthful perceptions. The lawyer learns that his sweeping statement that life on any terms is better than death...
The impulsive lawyer is sequestered in the banker's lodge where he can have virtually anything he desires except human companionship. After arguing against the banker that life imprisonment is not... What happens to the lawyer at the end of the story "The Bet"?
He has come to appreciate the real valuable aspects of life. In escaping his confinement, he actually saves his life, since the banker has planned to kill him so as not to pay the money he can no longer afford. The banker having gone into debt over the years seems to have become a slave to money.
Succumbing to the power of greed, the banker resolves to kill the lawyer to avoid losing his fortune, but changes his mind after finding a letter written by the lawyer where he renounces “the stuff of the earth” and declares he will break the terms of the bet.
Answers 1. The Banker bets the lawyer that he can't stay in solitude for fifteen years. He wants to win the bet.
They agreed to a bet: if the lawyer could spend fifteen years in total isolation, the banker would pay him two million rubles. The lawyer would have no direct contact with any other person, but could write notes to communicate with the outside world and receive whatever comforts he desired.
In Chekhov's "The Bet," the banker and the lawyer both learn the futility of their wager, as they have found that life and its conditions differ greatly from their more youthful perceptions. The lawyer learns that his sweeping statement that life on any terms is better than death is not true.
The banker values personal pride, power, material possessions, and money. In all things, the banker is a powerful man. He would choose the death penalty as being the most humane simply because it would be better than dying by degrees.
How does the lawyer provoke the banker's decision to place the bet? The lawyer questions whether or not the banker has the money to make a worthwhile bet with him. The lawyer suggests that the banker doesn't have the courage to place such a risky bet against him.
At the end of Anton Chekhov's "The Bet", the lawyer survives the 15 years in prison but refuses to take the money.
The lawyer suggests that the banker doesn't have the courage to place such a risky bet against him. The lawyer offers to give the banker two million if he cannot stay in solitary confinement for the agreed upon years. The lawyer proposes that he will remain in solitary confinement even longer than the banker suggests.
During his confinement, he learns that money and possessions aren't the most important things in life. How does the lawyer change by the end of the story? What causes him to change? Yes, the banker changes.
What was the bet between the lawyer and banker? The lawyer bet that he could stay in solitary confinement for 15 years if the banker paid him 2 million dollars.
The banker thought that the lawyer was asleep, dreaming about the 2 million dollars, and he only has to throw him on the bed, suffocate him a little with the pillow, and the most conscientious expert would find no sign of a violent death, but he should first read the letter on the table.
The banker felt that death penalty was better than life imprisonment. However, the lawyer said that if he had to choose, he would choose life imprisonment as he felt that it is better to live anyhow than to not live at all. This led to an argument, which transformed into a bet.
Toward the end of the story, the banker projects his own feelings onto the lawyer when he imagines that the lawyer is “dreaming of those millions” because he believes that the lawyer’s ultimate goal is the money that even he visualizes in his dreams.
The banker’s comments and actions on the night of the party reveals about his personality that he is very short- tempered as he banged his fist on the table once the lawyer said he agreed upon the assumption of “it’s better to live somehow than not to live at all. ” Also, he can be considered as very responsive because once the lawyer said that, he immediately made the bet, claiming that the lawyer wouldn’t last for five years. However, he later realizes that this bet would not contribute anything or convince people that capital punishment is worse or better than imprisonment for life. So, the banker has an extremely capricious personality as well as easily agitated.
The banker is a dynamic character, one who fundamentally changes throughout the course of the story. The narrator tells us that, during the fifteen years in which he has kept the lawyer as a... Latest answer posted January 2, 2019 6:58 pm UTC. 2 educator answers. The Bet.
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The banker regards the bet as "cursed" because it seems to have brought him nothing but bad luck. Since making the bet with the young lawyer, the banker's fortunes have taken a serious turn for the...
In Chekhov's "The Bet," the banker and the lawyer both learn the futility of their wager, as they have found that life and its conditions differ greatly from their more youthful perceptions. The...
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