Bartleby Questions

Why dont we know anything about Bartleby other than what we see of him in the story? is that weakness of the story? why doesn't the Boss just fir Bartleby? What does the boss do for a living? What kind of company is he running?

We do not know anything about Bartleby other than what we see in the story because he is a character that's "dead" and keeps things to himself, he's VERY antisocial. The author wanted to portray Bartleby as a strange mysterious character to make us the readers "hooked" to know more of the story. If Bartelby told more about his story and was more like the other three workers then the story would be weak the story would be boring, vauge and flat. The Boss doesn't fire Bartleby because he feel sympathy for him and it's more of an avantage that he didn't kick Bartleby out of the story. The boss is a scrivener who copies legal document for people, he runs a scrivener office.