Bartleby

                                            


                ( "I observed that he never went anywhere. As yet I had never, of my personal knowledge,
known him to be outside of my office. He was perpetual sentry in the corner." 16)

                This quotation was a sign and an observation for "HELP!". As the narrator clearly observed,
 he had the ability to see signs for a simple cry for help. Bartleby was man that suffered from both
mental and physical torment. He alienated himself as an individual, As a result, the elderly narrator was
intrigued and confused by Bartleby's cadaverous ways. He then built a fixation towards his new clerk. He
was determined to understand the inner workings and mindset of this odd man, convinced it was solely
driven by compassion. This was not compassion but merely compliant and curiosity towards this individuals
personal tortures. Once the narrator has come to the end of his patient he rejects the man. Only out of
cowardliness. The narrator moves his location away from the tortured soul. Leaving this man with sure
rejection and loneliness. This story eventually leaving Bartleby alone, heart broken, and left to his own
demise. Bartleby subconsciously took his own humanity. Truly, could the narrator have been the villain?
 Could he have been a further instigator, and drawn this disturbed young man further into depression by his
own fixation and personal interest? The narrator was left with nothing but a question mark and an unknown
perception of a odd young man who once worked for him.


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