Alienation Unit 3

     Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville was actually a shocking story.  I wish I could tell people that I did not want to do something when I was told to.  What I realized afterward though was that this story is about the lawyer, not Bartleby.  The lawyer showing so much sympathy for Bartleby shows how similar these two are.  The lawyer is almost as isolated as Bartleby.  I did not find out if he had family or did anything in his free time.  He says that he is going to "remove my offices next week" (668).  He is doing this because he himself won't make Bartleby leave.  The lawyer is crazy! He did not have to go to such extremes.  All in all, this story was about the lawyer, watching how he deals with Bartleby and learning a lot more about him then I set out to find.