The Bet Poem Theme

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In “The Bet”, the theme is that materialistic things do not matter, only one 's spiritual well being with God. The bet was to determine whether or not or not the lawyer could stay locked up in solitary confinement for 15 years. In those 15 years, the lawyer spent his time reading, writing, and drinking wine. Through all of the reading, he learned many things and all of which he found pointless by the end of the 15 years. To prove his point even further, he left his solitary confined area 5 hours before the time the bank and the lawyer agreed on; therefore, the lawyer did not receive the 2 million dollars that he would have. This goes to show that the lawyer truly believed his well being with God was more important than any other object