... was first published, like so many other works of the time, it was published in a magazine that was read by both the middle and upper classes. The story was meant to sell, it was not meant solely as a piece of literature, rather, it had to make the magazine money as well. I believe this is the reason that the story ends the way it does, with a small paragraph which sounds ... questions; none of which is more pressing than who is Bartleby? Until the last paragraph the reader is able to draw clear parallels between Bartleby's actions and the desires of the overworked lower-class. Bartleby ...

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