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The Bet By Anton Checkhov Analysis
In the short story "The Bet" by Anton Checkhov a wager is made between a banker and lawyer that was meant to prove either of their opinions on death penalty to be right, or best the option. The banker believes that death penalty would be the best punishment for serious crimes and that life imprisonment is ineffective; while the lawyer feels that death is too extreme and life in prison would be enough consequence. By the end of the story neither are proven to be right due to the lawyer not truly serving a life sentence, the banker almost making a hasty terrible decision, and the lawyer while in his prison sentence being given special treatments that people in prison would not get.
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