Personally, I think famous writer Anton Chekhov did a fine job at making his story "The Bet" interesting, and I doubt there is anything any of us could do to make it better. However, if you want to rewrite his story in a different way, you might do it in real time instead of as a flashback. That would probably turn it into a very long book, but that way, you would be able to...
Personally, I think famous writer Anton Chekhov did a fine job at making his story "The Bet" interesting, and I doubt there is anything any of us could do to make it better. However, if you want to rewrite his story in a different way, you might do it in real time instead of as a flashback. That would probably turn it into a very long book, but that way, you would be able to know each characters' thoughts as the years go by. Or, maybe you could, instead, just choose a couple of instances during each of the fifteen years, where the readers might gain insight into each character's thoughts and feelings and/or answer the questions some of us might have. For example, why did the lawyer stop playing music and then take it up again? What books did he read that had the biggest impact on him and why? How did he survive the loneliness of all those years? These are questions that aren't answered in the story as it is.
Or, you could just change the ending. Have a big knock down, drag out fight after the lawyer wakes up while the banker is trying to kill him. The banker somehow ends up dead instead, and the lawyer is taken off to a real prison, where he has to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement. Personally, I like Anton Chekhov's version better!
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