Bartleby the Scrivener

Bartleby the Scrivener is a story about a guy who responds to an ad for a job. Bartleby is hired to relieve stress on the company. He doesn’t do any of his work and is about to get laid off. The owner for some reason can’t fire him. Bartleby is later put in jail and dies since he doesn’t want to eat.
Thanks to an elderly lawyer who hires Bartleby as a copying clerk will be in for a big surprise. The main reason why they hired him was to help with the stress. He is described as a pale and miserable looking man. Another reason why the lawyer hired him was to calm the hot tempers of the two other copyists. He has his own office, which is separated from the other two copyists. His main job is to double-check a copy’s faithfulness to the original. When his boss asked him to do a favor he simply replied “I would prefer not to.” This story seems to be cut off from nature and all...