Summary/Analysis

The story “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov can be related to my personal observations about life as this story explores an ethical theme about the human life's value. Sometimes in life, an individual has to learn different lessons by passing through the difficult and tough times. As a kid, I went through so many difficult phases of life, my parents got divorced in my young age. I had the physical deformity and because of that I was humiliated many times in my professional life. I later realized the differences in things, the losses and gains that I had in my young age. Same as this story, I gained learning experiences such as wisdom by the loss of valuable things that I lost in my life. The story by Anton Chekhov with the name “The Bet” is a story that is based on banker and lawyer that both agree on a bet of $2 million, the banker had to remain concerned about the money and the lawyer had to spend fifteen years private confinement who finally gave up the bet. The lawyer later realized the actual meaning of life as well as insignificane of money, in his time in confinement (Chekhov, pp.50-60).

I got to learn from attitudes of people towards me, the humiliating behavior of individuals made me learn that our society try not to mix up with the individuals having any type of physical deformity. Through the story “The Bet” the author Anton Chekhov presents somewhat same belief that the capacity and power for learning present inside an individual, and this learning is not anything that can occur for each and every individual, but for me it did.

In my young age, my parents got divorced. This divorce introduced a major change in my life. I personally witnessed the loss of love between my mother and father, this condition created a challenging life for me. This even was a watershed event for me. In the story “In Popular Mechanics”, Raymond Carver has conveyed the general theme that not each and every relationship end happily, so this story is very well related to my real life story. Raymond Carver has used painstaking descriptions, various symbols and an uncommon title for conveying the general theme (Carver, pp. 90-101). He has used each and everything for his personal advantage. He has brought the theme of distressing, however truthful story. These days, many ...