Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville Plot Summary

Alongside such passivity, we find, in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', the theme of conformity. The story's setting on Wall Street, the financial centre of the United ...

Characterized as a symbolic fable of self-isolation and passive resistance to routine, Bartleby, the Scrivener reveals the decremental extinction of a human ...

The narrator is an unnamed elderly lawyer who works with legal documents and has an office on Wall Street in New York. He already employs two scriveners, Turkey ...

The story, set in a Wall Street law office in the mid-1800's, begins with the unnamed narrator, The Lawyer, stating that he would like to focus his tale on ...

When Bartleby first goes to work, he works night and day. He is likely working much more than the Lawyer pays him for, and the Lawyer is happy to accept ...

The Lawyer then decides he has pity for Bartleby, as he means no mischief or insolence with his attitude; it is simply how he is. So, The Lawyer reckons that if ...

The plot is deceptively simple. The Lawyer, a well-established man of sixty working on Wall Street, hires a copyist—seemingly no different from any other ...

“Bartleby the Scrivener” centers on a scrivener, or copyist, for a law firm. The story is narrated by the Lawyer, the man who employs Bartleby.