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Short Story 'Bartleby: A Story Genuinely About Him'
Sabeena Jagdeo
Bartleby, A Story Genuinely About Him The story of Bartleby, The Scrivener in my opinion is truly about Bartleby. In the short story the narrator merely talks about himself to give background knowledge to the reader on the life in which Bartleby is about to enter. From the beginning he says “it is fit I make some mention of myself … because some such description is indispensable to an adequate understanding of the chief character”, emphasizing that he is merely there to tell the story of Bartleby. It may seem that the story is about the narrator because of how much he talks about himself, applying words like “I” and “my” continuously through the story however, we do not know anything about him, other than that he owns his
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