Question

"To prove to you in action how I despise all that you live by, I renounce the two millions of which I once dreamed as of paradise and which now I despise. To deprive myself of the right to the money I shall go out from here five hours before the time fixed, and so break the compact… "

What does this paragraph say about the lawyer's character at this point of the story?
A. He is willing to live by his new convictions.
B. He has gone insane and hates riches.
C. He was never willing to live up to the bet.
D. He no longer believes in life imprisonment.

Answer 1

Fifteen years before, his millions had been beyond his reckoning; now he was afraid to ask himself which were greater, his debts or his assets. Desperate gambling on the Stock Exchange, wild speculation and the excitability which he could not get over even in advancing years, had by degrees led to the decline of his fortune and the proud, fearless, self-confident millionaire had become a banker of middling rank, trembling at every rise and fall in his investments.

In a way, there are two bets going on at the same time—there's the main one with the dude locked away for fifteen years, and then there's the one with the banker staking his money on the stock market. He's quite the gambler, this banker.

so i think the answer is C.

not really sure

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