Bartleby the scrivener
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In this essay I will analyze the story of Bartleby the scrivener, I would try to understand why the narrator didn't take some action since the beginning of Bartleby slackness. Did he feel responsible for Bartleby life? What would any other person do in that situation?
From the beginning of the story the description of Bartleby is striking. He is a person who seems already dead. He is like a ghost. He doesn't seem to have any feelings towards the world that surrounds him, nor any expression or evidence of human passion in him at all. This makes me wonder about his past life, there should definitely be a reason behind his actions something very painful that makes him not care for his life. What ever it was just made him an insensible man who doesn't care enough for him self to even eat on daily basis. He never leaves his desk; he only eats the ginger nut cakes brought to him by the office boy...