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Bartleby the scrivener
Title: Bartleby the scrivener
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 558 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bartleby the scrivener
If you analyzed life so much just to discover that it was meaningless, that you were just a machine, would you,
‘shut down,’ turn your self off? In the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, Bartleby does just
that. My ideas are very similar to those of Leo B. Levy. He believes that a “spell” was cast over Bartleby, and that
he was already dead because of a mental suicide. We have similar …showed first 75 words of 558 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 558 total…he shares the lifelong, frozen patience in which consists his strength and peculiarity that he is not
desperate... but merely devoid of hope.” I would have thought that that describes Bartleby rather than the lawyer..
I think that I was on the right track, but that Levy went into more depth and detail. Over all, we had the
same basic ideas about theme, setting, and character, which are the most important factors in any story.
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