Why does the Banker fear being pitied by the lawyer? After the lawyer strips him from his last $2 million dollars, he will go on to enjoy his life and be wealthy. On the other hand, the banker will be poor, and will fall on the social scale down to a low level. The banker feels that the lawyer knows that, and will live his happy, rich life in the banker's face to remind him of his foolish mistake.
Why does the narrator call the lawyer an "unhappy man"? He believes that the lawyer must be terribly poor and desperate in order to spend 15 years of his life in prison for only $2 million dollars, which is nothing to the rich banker. Towards the end, the lawyer decides to not take the money.
What happened to the banker while the lawyer was in prison? He grew richer. He donated his money to charity.
The banker wants to prove his point that the death penalty is more humane than life imprisonment.
How does the lawyer's 15-year imprisonment affect the banker? The banker wishes that he had required the lawyer to stay imprisoned for longer. The banker comes to realize that he was wrong about his stance on life imprisonment. The banker mourns the life and experiences that he has deprived the lawyer of.
In Anton Chekhov's "The Bet," the banker contends that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment. But, most of the guests at his party disagree. Among the banker's guests are journalists and intellectuals; they disapprove of the death penalty, finding it immoral and against Christian purposes.
The banker went at once with the servants to the lodge and made sure of the flight of his prisoner. To avoid arousing unnecessary talk, he took from the table the writing in which the millions were renounced, and when he got home, locked it upon the fireproof safe. What happened in the morning?
The banker and lawyer make the bet for the same reason that most people make a bet. They each believe that their opinion is right and best, and they are willing to risk something to prove it. The story starts with the narrator telling the reader that the banker had a friendly little social gathering.Mar 3, 2021
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.
In the end of the story, "The Bet," the lawyer despairs of life, and he reneges on the wager with banker. In their bet about which is crueler, live-long imprisonment or capital punishment, the banker and the lawyer wager their futures.Nov 22, 2018
The banker, on the other hand, has misused his money; and now if he pays off the bet, the banker will lose everything. After much inner turmoil, the banker decides to kill the lawyer before the end of the bet to keep from having to pay the loan. He sneaks into the guest house.Sep 9, 2020
Answer: The bet shouldn't have happened.May 11, 2020
The lawyer is about to complete fifteen years in solitary confinement and this would mean the banker will lose two million, most of his remaining money. The banker fears that when he becomes poorer than the lawyer, the lawyer will offer to help him out of pity and maybe to rub the fact that the banker had lost their bet. This possibility damages the banker's pride which is why he decides to kill the lawyer before he completes the fifteen years.
Anton Chekhov's ''The Bet'' revolves around a fifteen-year wager made between a banker and a lawyer. In order to prove that life imprisonment is more humane than death penalty, the lawyer agrees to be imprisoned for fifteen years in exchange for the two million prize that will be given to him by the banker if he succeeds.