Analysis Of The Ending Of Bartleby: The Death

(Student’s name) (Professor’s name) English 25 April 2018 Bartleby Ending Analysis In the beginning, everything is the way it should be; Bartleby is a new guy who arrives at an established office and gets to work right away. There is nothing weird about it, and even if Bartleby is weirdly quiet, it is relieving compared to Nippers and Turkey’s peculiarity. There is no clear way to tell about the story of the narrator, because things are running like they usually do for a while after Bartleby’s arrival. However, what catches the attention of readers is the ending because of how it was concluded. Bartleby is an odd tale with wherein the Bartleby’s character dies which happened with a lot of mystery. After the death of Bartleby, while he is alone and locked up, a part of his past is finally revealed which says about the time when he worked in the Dead Letter’s office. The story’s narrator contemplates if this sad job might have had an impact on Bartleby’s mental health. This part of the story makes the reader ponder about his or her own character. When the novel was about to end, Bartleby was surrendered to the Police who took off Bartleby to the tombs because he was recognized as a vagrant. The author came to see Bartleby in jail and instructed the grubman to make everything pleasant for Bartleby. After a few days, Bartleby was found by the narrator bizarrely huddled at the end of the yard which is an area not reachable by prisoners. His knees were drawn up while lying on his side, with his head on the cold stones. The narrator touched Bartleby, and felt a shiver running up his arm, spin, and then finally his feet. He found Bartleby dead. After his death, rumors about how he was started to spread around. When the narrator found out that he worked in an office that handled dead letters, he wondered if it was really dead bodies. The way Bartleby was found made the story a sad and tragic one because he is an anti-hero that he imposed on himself grave sufferings for unexplainable reasons. It was his mental abnormality that made him suffer and not because his character did a lot of wrong. Before dying, and some time after the narrator’s services as a copyist, Bartleby lost his productivity. He started disobeying any order given by the narrator even if he was his master. All he did was copy documents and stayed inside the room where he was assigned to. After a short while, he started to skip doing the main job and did not want to copy anymore. He started to skip dinner and lived on eating ginger nuts. When his master was unable to make him go, he switched chambers, but Bartleby could still be felt in the old place. The new tenants and landlord of the chamber contacted the police so they can evict him, and that is when he was placed in a prison...