![]() ![]() But, most importantly, he personifies the spirit of pure potentiality: he enacts the power of a tabula rasa where it is still possible to write a new story, where there is still a chance of change and renovation. He offers an alternative, separating himself from that constrictive society while inseparably revealing the restrictive conditions in which they are all living. The power of such a simple act of “not-doing” stems precisely from his way of contradicting the society around him: the work society. But in it, Bartleby rises up as someone “who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him", standing out in that oppressive environment with his “I would prefer not to” and declining all possible activity, to the bewilderment of his boss and colleagues. ![]() That story describes a dark, hostile atmosphere, a world with inhuman workloads whose inhabitants are excessive characters, all somehow sick, reduced to animal laborans. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is a story of Wall Street. ![]()
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