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“You are mad, and gone the wrong way. You take falsehood for truth and ugliness for beauty. You would marvel if suddenly apple and orange trees should bear frogs and lizards instead of fruit, and if roses should begin to breathe the odor of a sweating horse. So do I marvel at you, who have bartered heaven for earth. I do not want to understand you . . . .” Identify how Chekhov’s background and beliefs may have influenced his short story “The Bet.”

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I do not no much about him, but it is probably inspired by his father because his father was a bit rough when I read checkhovs background, also he hates what we have become has a civilization how we admire fake beauty instead of natural beauty. that we are greedy and we care only for our self.

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I do not no much about him, but it is probably inspired by his father because his father was a bit rough when I read checkhovs background
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