Bartleby

Bartleby Bartleby, the scrivener, a sullen and depressed man who used to be of great help as a energetic, go getter copyist before he turned into a lack-luster lazy hermit, was a man of peculiarly odd behavior. Just as uncanny as his employees, the narrator exhibits unordinary and unreasonable behavior too, in his efforts to become famous among the bright lights of New York. As opposites attract, similar people, as Bartleby and the narrator are, repel. Bartleby ruins the narrators life and has his own come crashing down too. “Prefer not to” continue reading if one desires, but that is a personal choice, just as Bartleby chose not to want to do any more work. Bartleby’s self-motivation had burned out and in no way could anyone appel to it. It had seemed that his employment at the dead letters office had caused him to view life with a bias. Bartleby probably “prefer not to” because he had seen so repetitively death staring him in the face at the dead letter office that he knew death was coming and in the end nothing really mattered. Not how much work he did. Not how bartleby, narrator, just, death, life, man, nothing, behavior, work, rather, one, much, extreme, end, day, both, appease, worried, while, ways, unusual, uncanny, relationship, really, probably, present, preoccupied, prefer, placed, peace, office, odd, narrators, make, living