Hard working, strict, and being a provider for your society is the definition of the American/Puritan society. If one was to be asked to do work in the Puritan era, that person would have done it because they feared the consequences which were usually some type of isolation. That person also respected the work and who asked them to do it but in “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, the whole work ethic was joked about in …showed first 75 words of 745 total…

…showed last 75 words of 745 total…is still placed on the product rather than the person. The narrator cannot destroy Bartleby because he is feels in his heart that Bartleby is right and that he represents something important to him. Bartleby goes on in the story because he likes the way he lives life and he knows something about life that others don’t but he is destroyed before the readers could find what but the audience still cheer him on.