"Bartleby the Scrivener" by: Herman Melviller

I found this short story to be extremely frustrating and a very difficult read. I believe this was so because of the very little plot structure and action in the story. Because this part of the story was so boring, I tried to focus on the characters and how they developed, but even this was hard. What I did find was that the story was more focused on the lawyer rather than Bartleby as I originally thought. I also found it difficult to find any important change in any of the characters. To me, the lawyer seemed to be the same at the end as he was at the beginning. At the beginning, he was intrigued by Bartleby and was hesitant to fire him and ask him to leave. I found this to be the same at the end because although he had fired Bartleby, he still offered to help him in some ways and he even visited him in prison. This shows that he was still intrigued and felt sorry for Bartleby. I also saw no change in Bartleby as he "preferred not to" at the beginning and the end. Little was revealed about him and little was said by him, making him a flat character.