Why does the banker in the anton chekov's "the bet" feel contempt or despise himself at the end of the story?

he wants to renegotiate the terms of the bet.

he despises himself for his greed and for his willingness to kill the lawyer.

he hates the fact that he has to pay two million to the lawyer.

In the story "a very old man with enormous wings", why does the young girl get changed into a spider?

"the bane of the internet" is written in first-person subjective point of view, so the narrator a) tells the story as it is happening b)tells the story as it is happened in the past c)is a minor character who tells the story as it is happening d)none of the above

Ead this excerpt from the introduction to wheels of change by sue macy. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons. why does the author include this excerpt?