The Employer has several problems. He has a shallow personality that suits his shallow interactions with other people. He cares too much what other people think of him, including the reader. The narrator tells us that he is merely recounting the history of the lives of scriveners, about which little has been written previously. Instead, he is using our attention as an opportunity to clear his conscience or confess his sins. If I were in his place, I would do things differently. It becomes immediately clear that the narrator is obsessed with the reader’s opinion of him. He calls himself an unambitious lawyer who is concerned with the easiest way of life (3). I doubt that. This is what I tell myself when I fail at something-“I’m happy with where
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I think that something about the emptiness in Bartleby’s demeanor resonates with the Employer. He tells us the Bartleby is the strangest person he ever met, and yet feels threatened by the insecurities that Bartleby presents him with every day. I think that the Yin-Yang twins Turkey and Nippers seem just as interesting as Bartleby, but the narrator presents them as one-dimensional characters. Old age and drinking problems don’t strike a chord with the narrator the same way that loneliness does. Would I do anything differently? Definitely. First of all, I would make sure that I have real friends and not just celebrity and business acquaintances. Bartleby’s omnipresence and impending sense of doom probably wouldn’t bother me as much if I didn’t feel so lonely otherwise that I needed his presence. In this case, company breeds misery.
` I wouldn’t act like kid in middle school that is ashamed of a childhood friend, denying him in public while secretly enjoying his company in private. I would probably fire Bartleby and call the police if he stuck around too long. I wouldn’t come checking the office on a Sunday morning before church just because I had nothing better to do; I’d probably be sleeping or watching football. I definitely wouldn’t feel the need to justify my actions to unknown generations in the
I think that something about the emptiness in Bartleby’s demeanor resonates with the Employer. He tells us the Bartleby is the strangest person he ever met, and yet feels threatened by the insecurities that Bartleby presents him with every day. I think that the Yin-Yang twins Turkey and Nippers seem just as interesting as Bartleby, but the narrator presents them as one-dimensional characters. Old age and drinking problems don’t strike a chord with the narrator the same way that loneliness does. Would I do anything differently? Definitely. First of all, I would make sure that I have real friends and not just celebrity and business acquaintances. Bartleby’s omnipresence and impending sense of doom probably wouldn’t bother me as much if I didn’t feel so lonely otherwise that I needed his presence. In this case, company breeds misery.
` I wouldn’t act like kid in middle school that is ashamed of a childhood friend, denying him in public while secretly enjoying his company in private. I would probably fire Bartleby and call the police if he stuck around too long. I wouldn’t come checking the office on a Sunday morning before church just because I had nothing better to do; I’d probably be sleeping or watching football. I definitely wouldn’t feel the need to justify my actions to unknown generations in the