- Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut are introduced before Bartleby to show how tolerant the narrator generally is of eccentric and somewhat unproductive employees. For example, Nippers is irritable in the morning hours, while Turkey is erratic and messy in the afternoon. Ginger Nut, the errand boy, spends most of his time procuring cakes for the office. Nevertheless, although the narrator has some quibbles with them and even tries to dismiss Turkey, he never does so because he desires the easiest life. Therefore, even though Bartleby is inert, the narrator takes some time to dismiss him, and it is obviously traumatic for the narrator to have to take any extreme steps.
- When Bartleby first appears, the narrator describes him as "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn!" His forlorn and decrepit nature will only worsen as the story goes on, and he is eventually thrown out of the narrator's firm.
- The story takes place on Wall Street in New York City, and the walls in the story are...
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