Bartleby of Bartleby the Scrivener :: Bartleby Scrivener Essays

Bartleby of Bartleby the scribe Hermilitary someonenel Melvilles short paper Bartleby the Scrivener introduces human racey interesting characters with many different personalities to us. However, away of Ginger Nut, Turkey, Nippers, and the sometime(a) Man who narrates the floor, the one that is most mysterious to us is Bartleby. Bartleby is a scrivener, which, in simple terms, is a human version of a modern twenty-four hour period copy machine. He does his job extremely well, hardly ever halt his work and getting things done quickly and efficiently. However, he is a man of few words. In fact, he is a man of one vocalise I would elect not to. He says this in response to anything that is quest of him other than to copy documents. He actually outright refuses to do anything else that his stamp (the vote counter) asks him to do. This is the first step in confusing the reader about Bartleby. Melville, however, never seems to offer an answer to this mystery. Another interesting thing that I notice was that Bartleby never said I leave behind not., but I prefer not. This would indicate that the person he is talking to has an option as to choosing what Bartleby will or wont do, but it is said in such(prenominal) a way that it manages to confuse the narrators feelings, and causes him, for a long period of time, to only when accept the statement as a no. This appears to me as a weakness of the narrator as a business owner, but at the same time makes me wonder what is Bartlebys purpose for responding in such a way. Another interesting characteristic of Bartleby is his vivacious habits, which we find out about later in the story. He apparently lives at the site (originally unbeknownst to the narrator). He sleeps, washes, and works in the same place. What makes this even more than interesting is that he refuses (or states that he would prefer not) to change his living arrangements. When the narrator moves his business, and Bartleby refuses to v acate the premises after the new tenant arrives, the narrator is taken to be responsible for Bartleby, simply because he is the only person who is even close to knowing him. After a lengthy serve well that ends with Bartleby in prison, who seemingly regards the narrator as the reason for his being there, the story quickly closes with the demise and death of Bartleby, and the strange introduction of the grub man (who seems as though he has some deeper importance in the story which I cannot place).