English, 17.12.2019 17:31 ShadowHedgehog1414

Read the excerpt below from the short story “the bet” by anton p. chekhov and answer the question that follows.
during the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer, as far as it was possible to judge from his short notes, suffered terribly from loneliness and boredom. from his wing day and night came the sound of the piano. he rejected wine and tobacco. “wine,” he wrote, “excites desires, and desires are the chief foes of a prisoner; besides, nothing is more boring than to drink good wine alone,” and tobacco spoils the air in his room.
which type of conflict occurs in the excerpt above?
a. ironic
b. external
c. rowdy
d. internal

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