Point Of View

who tells the story? -the first person narrator , who is flawed but human ... he's reliable , we trust him. His actions definitely support what he tells us about himself ; especially the part about being a man who likes to take the "easy" way . what else is gained by telling this story from the boss perspective? why not one of the other clerks.

The person telling the story is the boss. The boss is the first person narrator , he is flawed but human, he is reliable and we do trust him.His actions do support what he tells us about himself, especially the part about being a man who likes to take the "easy" way, because he doesn't aspire anything. The story is told in the Boss perspective to show the reader that he is a man who only cared about himself and Bartleby changed him, also so the story could be more interesting much more dynamic and set every point the author is making through the story. The story is not told by any of the other clerk because if it was told by Nippers, Turkey or Ginger nut then Bartleby would just be criticized, the story would probably go off topic and their personalities wouldn't be as funny, things would just be vague. Nipper, turkey and Ginger nut are there characters to make the story more entertaining and also for us readers to know some more opinions about the Bartleby situation. Without them we wouldn't have realized the bosses change.