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The short fiction “Bartleby the scrivener” by Herman Melville begins on Wall Street in a small office peopled by workers who share similar cultural dictates and outlooks on social matters. ... Bartleby, a non-conformist of the most extreme type, comes into employment with the narrator’s law firm as a copyist and causes the narrator to question his ideas of society and what he considers to be normal human behavior. Bartleby presents the narrator with “passive resistance” and eventually suffers a death of attrition; gradually wearing down by friction with social dogma with respect to social behavior. ... We should analyze our beliefs, and critique a social structure where no people like Bartleby can exist. ... The narrator who is a prudent and “eminently safe” man structures his office such that, prior to Bartleby’s employment, allows him to separate himself from the waning temperaments of his peers by glass doors. ... " however, after Bartleby has been employed by the lawyer for a short period of time the walls are described as being only three feet away from the window.
Approximate Word count = 791
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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