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Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
"Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance."
There's a LOT in this to read into. The lawyer-boss - is he generous, selfish, or both? Bartleby - why are you refusing, sorry, *preferring* not to work? No one is outright abusing you. The employer isnt mean or cruel, in fact he's willing to take you on as a charity. The other employees will work, but we'll ignore their personal vices. But are they vices or a way to just get through the day?
The antagonist of the story is within the subtitle of the story, "A Story of Wall Street," and it's as silent in the story as Bartleby. The cruel monotony of The System and how it is accepted as normal. And Bartleby resists with a quiet, offensive resistance that (to me) says, "I would rather die than partake in this soul-crushing cubicle and gluttony of capitalism."
There's a LOT in this to read into. The lawyer-boss - is he generous, selfish, or both? Bartleby - why are you refusing, sorry, *preferring* not to work? No one is outright abusing you. The employer isnt mean or cruel, in fact he's willing to take you on as a charity. The other employees will work, but we'll ignore their personal vices. But are they vices or a way to just get through the day?
The antagonist of the story is within the subtitle of the story, "A Story of Wall Street," and it's as silent in the story as Bartleby. The cruel monotony of The System and how it is accepted as normal. And Bartleby resists with a quiet, offensive resistance that (to me) says, "I would rather die than partake in this soul-crushing cubicle and gluttony of capitalism."