Question

c) Why and how does the lawyer break the bet? in the chapter the bet
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Answer 1

The Bet” by Anton Chekhov begins with a discussion about the death penalty. A banker gives a party in which this topic creates dissension among the men. A young lawyer takes a bet with the banker that he can stay fifteen years in solitary confinement; and, in the end, he would receive two million dollars. The point of the bet is that any life is better than no life.

The rules are that the lawyer will stay on the property of the banker and will have no human contact for fifteen years. He can have anything that he wants involving music, books, entertainment, or food.

Through the years, the lawyer goes through many emotional stages. Initially, he is depressed; then, he begins to study everything that he can get his hands on from languages to religion. 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. Just before killing him, the banker discovers a note that the lawyer has written.

Answer 2

Answer:

from all the readings the lawyer has learnt the vanity of human desires certainly the desire for material gain the soul. so in the end the lawyer departs as he has written that he will break the bet