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A 4 pages essay that analyzes the characters, plot and perspective of this enigmatic tale by American author Herman Melville. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? Melville/Bartleby the Scrivener Research Compiled By
- properly! Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-street is
a psychologically and metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narrator of the tale, the Lawyer, hired Bartleby
as a scrivener, that is, a "law-copyist" in his law office (Melville 1). The narrative begins with the Lawyer introducing Bartleby as the "strangest" scrivener that he ever saw or
heard of (Melville 1). Initially, Bartleby is an excellent employee, and his output of work if enormous. However, one day, the Lawyer needs a document to be examined and he
indicates that Bartleby should do it, and he replies, "I would prefer not to" (Melville 18). The Lawyer is so surprised by this refusal and taken aback by the perfectly
calm way in which Bartleby expresses his refusal that he cannot bring himself to even scold Bartleby and he relegates the task to another man instead. Soon, Bartleby refuses to
do any work at all, but he also refuses to leave the law offices. The story concerns the Lawyers reactions to this predicament, culminating in Bartlebys eventual fate when he
is arrested as a vagrant. Some scholars have argued that the Lawyer should be viewed negatively, as someone who is "ultimately blinded by a self-interest that causes him to
abandon Bartleby to New Yorks system of tenants, landlords and jailers" (Wilson 24). Others have argued that the Lawyer should be viewed as the "embodiment of human sympathy," as he
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