![]() Characteristic of his stories and plays, Chekhov ends the short story on an ambiguous note as the lawyer emerges from his confinement with a new understanding of the world and a complete rejection of materiality. In the meantime, the banker’s wealth begins to dwindle and he must make a rash decision in order to save his money. Over the course of those fifteen years, the lawyer fervently reads and studies. The lawyer agrees to stay isolated in a lodge in the banker’s garden for fifteen years. The two debate and make a bet: if the lawyer can live in solitary confinement, the banker will give him two million rubles. The younger lawyer counters that to live under any circumstance is always better than death. The Bet is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young man who make a bet with each other based on capital punishment and whether the death. During a dinner party in November 1870, a wealthy banker claims that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment. ![]() ![]() ![]() The banker, who believes that the death penalty is more humane and moral than life imprisonment, argues that experiences, pleasures, and relationships are what make life worth living. Petersburg-based newspaper Novoye Vremya (Новое время), Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” (“Пари”) is a short story about a bet made between a banker and a lawyer. Anton Chekhov’s The Bet sets up a seemingly simple bet about the nature and value of life. First published in an 1889 edition of the St. ![]()
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