The painting, “Gauguin’s Armchair” by Vincent Van Gogh, deeply connects with “The Bet.” The projection of dark colors, such as the dark maroon carpets and evergreen walls in the painting, represent the lawyer’s solitude in the room. It gives the room a dark, gloomy presence. In the panting, the single chair sits alone in the picture, crafted with elegant cravings in its cherry wood. It rests in the center of the room, insolated, where no other furniture is to be seen except for a bright gas lamp hanging on the wall. But the most important piece of this painting is the center piece: the candle. Physiologically, the color white is classified as the absence of color. His room has trapped him and has taken away the colors of his life. There is no excitement or emotion. As shown in the picture, the candle is lit which means that the absent feeling is beginning to just melt away. He begins to find interest in books of the world. In the end, he concludes that we believe the world is a truth when it’s a lie and that people believe wrong is right. The lawyer despises life and its aspects. The lawyer writes a conclusive letter on how the fifteen years have really affected him. He spent his time studying the outside world as he is imprisoned in a small, bare room. When he is inside the room, he learns about life and he writes, “I marvel at you, who have bartered heaven for earth. I do not want to understand you…That I may show you in deed my contempt for that by which you live, I waive the two million of which I once dreamed of as paradise, and which I now despise. That I may deprive myself of my right to them, I shall come out from here five minutes before the stipulated term, and thus shall violate the agreement.” Because of the long, lengthy hours he had spent alone studying, he had disciplined himself to learn about the human behaviors that disrupt life of its true essence and had figured out that life isn’t about money, lies or our illusions we imagine. The lawyer is...