Bartleby
...st say “I prefer not to”. The lawyer never went through this with any other scriveners he had working for him.The lawyer says “I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction the easiest way of life is the best. Hence, though I belong to a professsion proverbially energentic and nervous, even to turbulance at times, yet nothing of that sort have I ever suffered to invade my peace.”(Davis 186) made it hard for him and the lawyer is not prepared for this at all. The lawyer finds out that Bartleby has been living at the office,which he doesn’t like. He also fires Bartleby from the job becuse he does no work, but Bartleby will not leave the job at all. This makes the lawyer mad, so he decides to move to a different office. The lawyer had felt sorry he had to do this all. He wouldn’t even call the cops on him. After the lawyer moved out the new owner of the office, the new came to him to get Bartleby out of th office. The lawyer went to try to make him move from there. He told him he would get him a job, but Bartleby would just say “ I would prefer not to”. The lawyer also tells Bartleby that he could even move into his house, but Bartleby says “No: at present I would prefer bot to make any change at all.” (Melville 137) This shows that the lawyer at first didn’t care what Bartleby did or where he slept, but now ...