Bartleby The Scrivener Rhetorical Analysis Essay

The presented passge provides an ideal character study of the lawyer, the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener. As the man walks home and analyzes the occurrence of the previous day, he envisioned in details and quickly self-rationalized his success in discharging Bartleby, his scrivener, from his office. The narrator’s syntax and diction demonstrates a character of sophistication and precision, while the rich observation and self-conglaturatory tone in his analysis and reveals his nuanced, analytical nature along with his inability for confrontations. All of these characteristics contribute to the complications that cause the many conflicts in this story. The sophistication in the narrator’s diction and syntax is the first thing that sets him apart. While the diction is remarkably complex, it is always used appropriately, such as the objective observation of his own “vanity” or the “perfect quietness” of his request to …show more content…
Within much of the length of the story, he had consistently avoided and delayed confrontation with Bartleby no matter how much the employee had violated the rules of the workplace. Through the first person account of his thoughts, readers know and easily sympathize with the lawyer’s increasing frustration over the insularity of Bartleby, but are further frustrated when he doesn’t take effect actions to lesson his concerns. He makes peace with his frustrations by internally imagining causes and effects of problems and deriving resolutions that keeps him from having to confront with other characters, such as when he decided to let Bartleby live in the office with the assumption that the scrivener is pitifully eccentric and poor (Norton 172). However, he is unable to notice this weakness; even when he moved his office to avoid confronting Bartleby, he still believed that it was for a righteous and noble