At the beginning the tone is confused and outraged. This tone creates a veil over Bartleby and using words like “stumble” the narrator conveys an out of hand situation. This confusion is prevalent in the tone throughout the piece, but it also focuses on pity as it progresses. The narrator diction through the whole of the piece helps create a tone of melancholy pity, but at the end to tone is replaced by a deeper emotion than pity. Near the end of the piece the narrator is so confused and exasperated with Bartleby that he is desperate to get rid of him. The tone becomes desperate and he says that he is “repulsed” by the scrivener. In the end the tone is pushed even farther. It becomes one of despair and hopelessness when the narrator realizes that he can’t help Bartleby. Bartleby suffers from a condition of the soul and not the body. The story closes with a feeling of desperate grief as the narrator laments over
At the beginning the tone is confused and outraged. This tone creates a veil over Bartleby and using words like “stumble” the narrator conveys an out of hand situation. This confusion is prevalent in the tone throughout the piece, but it also focuses on pity as it progresses. The narrator diction through the whole of the piece helps create a tone of melancholy pity, but at the end to tone is replaced by a deeper emotion than pity. Near the end of the piece the narrator is so confused and exasperated with Bartleby that he is desperate to get rid of him. The tone becomes desperate and he says that he is “repulsed” by the scrivener. In the end the tone is pushed even farther. It becomes one of despair and hopelessness when the narrator realizes that he can’t help Bartleby. Bartleby suffers from a condition of the soul and not the body. The story closes with a feeling of desperate grief as the narrator laments over