Bartleby, the scrivener, a sullen and depressed man who used to be of great help as a energetic, go getter copyist before he turned into a lack-luster lazy hermit, was a man of peculiarly odd behavior. Just as uncanny as his employees, the narrator exhibits unordinary and unreasonable behavior too, in his efforts to become famous among the bright lights of New York. As opposites attract, similar people, as Bartleby and the narrator are, repel. Bartleby ruins the narrators life and has his own come crashing down too.
“Prefer not to” continue reading if one desires, but that is a personal choice, just as Bartleby chose not to want to do any more work. Bartleby’s self-motivation had burned out and in no way could anyone appel to it. It had seemed that his employment at the dead letters office had caused him to view life with a bias. Bartl
Similar to how “extreme circumstances call for extreme actions”, unusual behavior causes unusual reactions, just like the narrators peculiar behavior in response to the odd predicament he was placed in by the influence of Bartleby. The narrator was also a self-conscience man who favored to ignore or appease problems rather than to resolve them and because of this the Bartleby problem was constantly appeased only to keep festering into something bigger and much worse until finally extreme measures had to be taken. The narrator even showed that he was a man of apeasement rather than confrontation when he was “made uncomfortable by his (Turkey) inflamed ways after twelve o’clock – but being a man of peace.” Just like Lord Chamberlain preferred to appease Hitler, the narrator was inclined to appease Bartleby rather that cause conflict. Th
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