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Summary and Analysis Climax. At the end of the six-day period, Bartleby has made no move to supply himself with a new job or lodgings. The lawyer therefore ...

A successful lawyer on Wall Street hires Bartleby, a scrivener, to relieve the load of work experienced by his law firm. For two days, Bartleby executes his ...

The Lawyer then decides he has pity for Bartleby, as he means no mischief or insolence with his attitude; it is simply how he is. So, The Lawyer reckons that if ...

Bartleby Ousted from a clerkship at the Dead Letter Office in Washington, Bartleby becomes a conscientious, almost robotic law copyist who works for four c.

When the lawyer comes upon the prisoner, he finds him inert against a wall, open-eyed in a fetal position. A touch proves that he is lifeless. The lawyer ...

One of Melville's most puzzling short works, Bartleby, the Scrivener, which critics have labeled one of America's greatest short stories, resembles his ...

The story, set in a Wall Street law office in the mid-1800's, begins with the unnamed narrator, The Lawyer, stating that he would like to focus his tale on ...

Characterized as a symbolic fable of self-isolation and passive resistance to routine, Bartleby, the Scrivener reveals the decremental extinction of a human ...

Bartleby comes to the office to answer an ad placed by the Lawyer, who at that time needed more help. The Lawyer hires Bartleby and gives him a space in the ...

Employing two copyists and an office boy, the lawyer finds his business grown to the point of needing an additional copyist. Upon hiring Bartleby, the narrator ...