In Herman Melville's work entitled Bartleby the Scrivener, the narrator is an elderly lawyer who works in his office on Wall Street. He proves to be intelligent, even-tempered, and conscientious. The unnamed lawyer possesses a good business mind and appears quite successful. Another trait of the narrator's personality is his ability to interact and deal with people. This attribute is greatly tested when he meets Bartleby and his passive oppression. The lawyer displays an unbelievable …showed first 75 words of 359 total…

…showed last 75 words of 359 total…his view of Bartleby is pure and unaffected by mental problems. Another interesting point is simply that the narrator is a lawyer. In viewing the character of Bartleby through the eyes of a lawyer, one obtains more details about the character than he or she would have with another type of narrator. The extra, diminutive aspects provided about Bartleby allow the reader to come up with a wide array of interpretations of the mysterious man.