Character Analysis Of Bartleby

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“Bartleby the Scrivener” is the story of a person who seems to be very displaced in society. He is not really sure what his purpose is and never really finds his way. Dan McCall focuses most of his critical work on the narrator, when the story is in fact about the character of Bartley. Dan’s critical work may be further persuading if he focused more of his writing on the actual character of Bartleby, whom the story is titled after. If “The Reliable Narrator” could have gone into more detail about how the narrator’s actions related to or affected Bartleby, McCall could have had a much stronger case.

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In Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”, a story of “the strangest” law-copyist the narrator, a lawyer, has ever employed is told. The narrator experiences conflict with Bartleby when he “prefers not to” examine some law papers. Once Bartleby “prefers not to” once, he continues to repeat the statement on all request asked of him. This statement sends Bartleby into a state of tranquility, staying isolated in the cubical and refusing all assistance by any means. This state results in him going to jail, and eventually dying. This passive resistance Bartleby exhibits traps him physically and psychologically by surrounding him with “walls” the narrator symbolically describes numerous times. The idea of transcendentalism arises from

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            The lawyer came to understand and respect Bartleby.  However strange and annoying Bartleby's declines became, his employer could not bring himself to fire, or even be infuriated with, Bartleby.  He knew the logical thing would be to dismiss him, but Bartleby made an impression upon the lawyer that he rather respected.  Upon Bartleby's decline to examine a copy, the attorney thought, "With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence.  But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangely disarmed me, but, in a wonderful manner, touched and disconcerted me."  The lawyer even regarded Bartleby as useful (also because he worked cheaply), and felt that he himself was somehow responsible for Bartleby's well being.  "If I turn him away, the chances are he will fall in with some less indulgent employer, and then he will be rudely treated, and perhaps driven forth miserably to starve."

In “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, the narrator has known multiple law-copyists. Instead of describing the numerous men he has employed, he chooses to focus on Bartleby, the most curious scrivener he came across during his career as a lawyer. In describing Bartleby and his relations with his two other law-copyists at the time, the narrator reveals not only his inability to confront people about their problems, but also his illusion about himself. The narrator carefully illustrates his law-copyists to highlight his demeanor.

The narrator also adds that “while of other law-copyists I might write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done…Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable” (p.1483). Bartleby distinguishes himself from others on

The story of Bartleby is dominated by the lack of action of the characters. The main characters are the lawyer, who tells the story, and Bartleby, who is one of the the employees. At the beginning of being hired, bartleby was an efficient worker. However, as the story draws on, this character prefers to do nothing. The lawyer asks him for explanations in a passive, sympathetic manner, and without any kind of aggression, but Bartleby always says: ¨I would prefer not to¨. He declines to do any work . Bartleby appears humble, sad, reserved, and quiet; he is not confrontational, but refuse to work. The lawyer feels simpathy for his employee, and at the same time he feels challenged. This situation becomes in a problem for the lawyer. Problem that

Most critics who analyze Bartleby agree that there is a universal problem regarding the mystery of Bartleby, and the ignorance that such a mystery creates within the narrator. Almost instantly readers find themselves asking the question as to why Bartleby so strange, this in itself presents a prevalent issue regarding the text that the narrator has in so few sentences has created. Thomas Mitchell argues that this response is the very problem of the reader, we jump too quickly to demonize the narrator, sympathize with Bartleby, and shift our energy to attempting to figure out the “problem” with Bartleby instead of analyzing the text for what it is (329).