Bartleby

Bartleby “Bartleby the Scrivener” In “Bartleby the Scrivener”, the narrator is driven to the brink of insanity by Bartleby, and is baffled even by the end of the story. When Bartleby is first introduced, the narrator feels that he is an honest, hardworking man who keeps to himself. Then, after the first time Bartleby “prefers not to” do something, the narrator begins getting confused, and even submits to Bartleby’s mild requests. By the time the narrator goes so mad that he vacates his building to get away from Bartleby, all he wants to do is go on living and forget about the strange Scrivener. He is soon hounded by a lawyer, and it appears no one can get Bartleby to leave the building. bartleby, narrator, scrivener, bartleby’s, time, strange, one, first, finally, feels, even, dead, building, work, way, vacates, useless, tombs, sympathetic, submits, story, soon, something, somehow, services, responsible, requests, realizes, prefers, postal, polite, police, point, person, people