Why does the banker despise himself at the end of “the bet”?

a) when he pays off his bet, he will be a poor man.
b) while his prisoner became wise and educated, he wasted his life.
c) to get out of the bet, he was willing to murder a man.
d) to pay off the bet, he must admit to his own greed.

The answer is letter C) To get out of the bet, he was willing to murder a man. 

The Bet is a story of a young lawyer and a banker who made a bet whether or not death penalty is worse than being imprison for life. In the end, the banker was able to kill the lawyer.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .