Blog Assignment #3 - Bartleby

I believe that "Bartleby the Scrivener"by Herman Melville is an amazing story that tells about the minds of others and also how people react to others people reactions towards different things. This story is put in the point view of Bartleby's employer and his reactions towards Bartleby's attitude and his work ethic. I believe that Melville used the employer as the point of view in the story becuase Melville wanted to show a side from another person other then Bartleby expressing both Bartleby's attitude and also the employer that throughout the story is basically being shut down by Bartleby. Bartleby is characterized in this story as a quiet and in the eyes of the reader a lazy worker that doesnt listen too well. Bartleby does the work that he wants to do but seems to be a little thick headed when it comes to his listening skills. The employer later finds that Bartleby lives in the office basically seeming homeless and here you get a good look at the soul of the employer of the story. When finding out the details of Bartleby he never insists on helping him or trying to maybe take it a little easy on his but he does nothing and seems to not care, moving on with his own life. Even when Bartleby decides to stop writting the employer hands him his paycheck and basically just tells him to get lost like he was nothing to him as a writer or as a person. Bartleby refuses to leave the building though and you finally get a sense of emotion becuase the employer states that he doesnt have the heart to tell Bartleby to leave. As time passes he becomes a distraction to people and the employer tells Bartleby to either leave the building or to be arrested. Bartleby remained stationary and he is arrested where in jail he refuses to eat and eventually ends up dieing in prision. The employee having more and more emotions towards Bartleby goes to bail him out and finds out of Bartleby's tragic death. I believe that Bartleby was suffering from a disorder of some kind and didnt recieve the proper help and attention that he needed. Bartleby's employers didnt see him as a man that needed help but as someone that was simply taking up space and needed to be removed. Thinking this while reading the story can change a readers thoughts on Bartleby from maybe being the annoying, lazy and rude employee that simply didnt want to do anything, to a man that had nothing or maybe felt like he had nothing and needed some professional attention. Barteby I believe changed the employer from himself and really made it clear that you need to look at the inside of a person and not just the outside and someone. The employer also known as the lawyer in the story seems to be shocked and a changed man when realizing that Bartleby's previous job as a clerk in a dead letter office maybe put him into this depressed and deranged state. I believe that everyone can change at any time and the employer in this story as much as in reality that people look right through the people they encounter and dont try to understand the true story behind everyone.