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 ... preoccupied his time so much that he could work. In the end he finally worried himself to death. Similar to how "extreme circumstances call for extreme actions-, unusual behavior causes unusual rea...

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