I can see that figure now - pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn !Īn industrious worker at first, Bartleby proves soon enough to be a less than ideal employee. The story is written retrospectively, and that colours the narrator's description of their first encounter: Thrust into this environment, Bartleby, however, remains largely a cipher. The narrative begins with a description of the offices before Bartleby's arrival, and the other employees - nicknamed, with personal quirks - are part of what has become at least a loose family of sorts, even if it does not extend beyond the workplace. It is an account of a person of almost no account:īartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and, in his case, those are very small.īartleby is an employee his background, history, personal circumstances are not of particular interest to his employer - but even he surely expected to come to know more of Bartleby eventually. ![]()
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