Within the story of "Bartleby the Scrivener," we are told of Bartleby through he lens of a narrator whom is also the lawyer for this firm on Wall Street. The narrator starts the story by explaining he is an "elderly man." and his profession has brought him, "Into more than ordinary contact with what would seem as interesting and somewhat singular set of men, the law copyists, or scriveners." Although this elderly man has seen many things and scriveners he chooses to focus on Bartleby since he sees him as the most interesting. I think the narrator focuses on Bartleby more than himself as a why to show that they are more alike than the narrator would like to admit. Another theory could be that the narrator chooses to focus on Bartleby more than himself as a form of deflection from what he truly feels about Bartleby. how do i respond to my classmate?
