"I resolved to gather all my faculties together, and forever rid me of this intolerable incubus." -page 667
This quote revealed the narrator's final attempt to get rid of Bartleby. He is going to move his entire office to a different location, just so he can be away from Bartleby. Most of the narrator's words and actions up to this point I have agreed with and most likely would have taken a similar approach. However, I think moving offices was crossing the line. This was totally letting Bartleby take control of him. I would have taken Bartleby's key or done some way to prevent him from getting back inside the office, or called the police before I would have moved offices.
At first, my initial reaction was that Bartleby was the laziest person on the face of the planet. Later I rebuked this and discovered that he was simply just the weirdest person on the face of the planet. None of his actions or motives make any logical sense what so ever. Refusing to work might be lazy, but refusing to eat is just beyond me. I wish the author would have revealed more about Bartleby. As the reader, I just grew to hate him more and more, but never really got a chance to understand his situation or anything. I don't think I could have been as patient with Bartleby as the narrator was.
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