Find and read the passage in
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" that begins on page
555 5th edition, page 544 of the 6th edition, or
page 543 of the 7th edition, with the sentence
"And remembered a certain unconscious air of
pallid–how shall I call it?–of pallid
haughtiness…," and ends on page 556 of the
5th edition, page 545 of the 6th edition, or 544
of the 7th edition, with the sentence "it was his
soul that suffered, and his soul I could not
reach." In this passage, the narrator reflects
on his response to the discovery that Bartleby
has been living in the narrator's office. . In a
well-organized essay, trace the changing
attitudes of the narrator toward Bartleby and
discuss the significance of the narrator's
conclusion concerning Bartleby's soul. In your
response you may choose to consider
elements such as diction, point of view, and
tone.
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