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2016-07-01 01:35:11 Post No. 8227094
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2016-07-01 01:35:11
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>Until the very end of the short story, the work gives the reader no history of Bartleby. This lack of history suggests that Bartleby may have just sprung from the narrator's mind.
>Consider the narrator's behavior around Bartleby: screening him off in a corner where he can have his privacy "symbolizes the lawyer's compartmentalization of the unconscious forces which Bartleby represents".
>The psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas insists the story is more about the narrator than the narrated. "The narrator's willingness to tolerate [Bartleby's] work stoppage is what needs to be explained."
I am currently trapped in a Bartleby-esque situation in my job irl.
I tried to read analysis of the story in the hopes of finding some hint toward a solution. Instead I find critics who are unable, despite a clear description of him, to imagine the possibility of Bartleby as a conscious human being.
What is it in our zeitgeist that makes the idea of a Bartleby too repulsive to recognize?
How can one avoid sharing Bartleby's fate?
