Bartleby the Scrivener

Bartleby is apply in the narrative non merely or not rightfully as a division but more of a design or symbol. Bartlebys character can be compared with another character made by Melville, Moby Dick. The reason for such comparison and at close to point similarities between them is that both characters are interpreted by the readers and whatsoever literary critics in many different ways. In effect, these characters cannot be construed in a single way.In the story Bartleby the Scrivener, Melville collapses comparable philosophical concerns in a special sort of setting. In an impressive comparison with Ahab (in Moby Dick), Bartleby is to a fault fascinated by palisades a persistent emblem in the story. Bartlebys character can be seen as a sort of wall in a sense that no one really knows what he thinks, what he same(p)s, what interests him, and whatsoever. Almost all things ab discover him and about his actions are unnamed and hard to explain. This description is unveiled by th e character played by the lawyer, who stock-stilltually becomes Bartlebys boss. The lawyer all throughout the story attempts to discover the absurdity of Bartlebys character which is depicted in several conniptions of the story. each throughout the story, Bartleby constantly refuses to follow what his boss asks of him. Consistently, he also refuses to terra firma wherefore he refuses to do so. Such attitude becomes the fundamental foiling of the lawyer in the story. He does not know how he could get out Bartleby follow his orders as how his other employees do. The first impression that would justify wherefore the lawyer does not fire Bartleby is the idea that he is probably so surprised of Bartlebys attitude of being nonconformist such that it becomes a big challenge for him to be able to make Bartleby follow him. He does everything to do this but he always fails. To his surprise, he could not produce in his heart the motivation to dismiss his eccentric employee.Lots of scen es give notice how the lawyer pays so much sympathy for Bartleby though the latter neer gives him the chance of knowing the reasons why he keeps on refusing to obey his orders and why he keeps on refusing telling him the reasons.The first scene where the lawyer shows billing and concern for Bartleby is when the former finds out that the latter is staying at the office even after office hours. When he learns that Bartleby does not have a situation to go after work, he just lets him stay in the office.The beside scene is when the lawyer refuses to agree to get Bartleby out of the office by a stranger. Probably, the lawyer feels that the stranger would not do good for Bartleby that is why he does not agree to the strangers proposal.Another scene is when the lawyer finally decided to relocate his office to another turn out and find out Bartleby standing in an empty room. He is touched(p) by the scene and in the end gives Bartleby money but leaves him as well.The last scene is whe n the lawyer pays sympathy for Bartleby when he learns that he is send to prison and he is dying because of his refusal to eat. He visits him and even pays the warden to make true that Bartleby would eat his meals.Until the end of the story, Bartleby does not reveal his reason for behaving like what he does. No one succeeds to unveil this information not even the lawyer who becomes so frustrated of making Bartleby disclose his nips about what is happening in his life.Towards the end of the story, the scenes between the lawyer and Bartleby suggest the tolerance and at the aforementioned(prenominal) time the aggravation that the lawyer feels towards Bartleby. Some critics say that it could be the exercise that the lawyer someways understands Bartlebys behavior for the reason that he excessively also wants to go against what the trend during that time asks them to do. But just like Bartleby, the lawyer could not find the exact words to explain the feeling that he has in his heart and the thoughts that envelops his mind. So he tolerates what Bartleby is doing.To give a conclusion, Bartleby serves as the direct representation of the wall which is the main theme of the story. He never reveals anything just like the wall as how the wall does not make any response whatever one does against it. Bartleby refuses to reason out for he believes that no one would understand him as he himself could not his own way of thinking. When he dies, he gives the lawyer, his boss, the lesson not to become a puppet of anyone else.Bartleby is able to show how nonconformist he is to the point of cover death for the sake of upholding what he believes in. It is implicit in the story that somehow the lawyer is starting to realize how disgusting the trend that he is shortly following (the trend of Capitalism). But he refuses to express it for the reason that he knows that when he do such, his life would be in peril. But as he sees the dying Bartleby, he understands that it is much bet ter to die retentivity ones own principles than continue living trying to suss out in with somebody elses standards.ReferenceMelville, H. (2006). Bartleby, the Scrivener, a Story of a Wall-street. Lightning Source Inc.