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Bartleby - College Essays

Bartleby

Is the narrator in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" sympathetic to Bartleby? Does he truly feel compassion for the man he hired? Perhaps he just regrets his hiring decision and wants nothing more than to be rid of Bartleby.

* The narrator in Bartleby is an inherently sympathetic man, as his treatment towards his employees is described.

* Regarding Turkey: " ... began the daily period when I considered his business capacities as seriously disturbed for the remainder of the twenty-four hours." (879)

* "One Winter day I presented Turkey with a highly respectable-looking coat of my own" (881)

* The narrator takes in an orphaned twelve year old boy "So he sent him to my office, as a student ...

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on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours" (894)
+ "Good-bye, Bartleby; I am going - good-bye, and God some way bless you; and take that," slipping something in his hand. (899)
+ "Bartleby, will you come home with me now not to my office, but my dwelling - and remain there till we can conclude upon some convenient arrangement for you at our leisure?" ...

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Added: 5/11/2012 04:19:52 PM
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