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Bartleby: "I prefer not to,"
"I prefer not to," also tells the reader about Bartleby isolating himself.
The phrase shows his lack of involvement, another form of isolation. The
narrator tells the reader exactly what he did to Bartleby, very vividly, as
shown below. In the novella, the author tells the reader, down to the
smallest detail, what he did to Bartleby to isolate him from the world. He
tells us in this pas ....
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employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his
residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring
person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning
of the story. "To befriend Bartleby, to humor him in his strange
willfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what
will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience." The narrator would
normally befriend Bartl ....
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