The story is a humorous commentary on industrial society. The author, Herman Melville uses the habits of the characters in the story to illustrate themes. The story is a particularly commentary on the modern office atmosphere and how it effected by the differ employees. Melville The author try to make a statement by this story about the relationship between employee and employer, and how the industrial mechanical work, the routinely work made those relationships stressed …showed first 75 words of 959 total…

…showed last 75 words of 959 total…through the tone of the story that the author believes the narrator had a larger duty to aid Bartleby than he exhibited. The tragic nature of the story's end, where the narrator comes back to visit Bartleby a mere 20 minutes after he has passed on, brings closure to Melville's point that our individual responsibility to our fellow man cannot be taken lightly or just occasionally on a whim when it might seem convenient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**