My question to this was there a problem in Bartleby’s life? The narrator shows how Bartleby starts to just drift away, he starts off being a very excellent working to just not doing anything. He even begins to just stare at the wall. He is just there not wantingto do anything but just be there. My thought on this is that the lawyer is feeling sorry for Bartleby.
And finally, throughout the return and reintegration, the narrator realizes his mistake, and refuses to go back to being the way he was previously. The monomythical structure of this essay is clearly defined by the actions and thoughts of the protagonist figure. During the separation in this story, the narrator tells how he has seen a man in the elevator at work have some kind of emotional breakdown. He explains how he did his best not to look at the other man, or make any indication that he had seen the man collapse on the floor, wracked with sobs. Because this isn’t a fairy tale, and there is no actual ‘adventure’ taking place, this can be viewed as the protagonist refusing to take on the quest he is being presented.
Throughout the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, the protagonist (who is not clearly named towards the end of the book) is narrorating the book. One who doesn’t read towards the end of the book would think that it is just the main character narrorating the story. This book goes very deep into the mind of the protagonist suprising the reader who maybe thought it was just a fighting book, with extra violence, and action. Tyler Durden, a man with a far different nature than the average civilized man. He has a hatred for consumer culture, and lives his life on the edge, not caring about organization, even destroying some of the consumer culture with help from his followers.
He portrays himself as emotionally isolated. It is obvious to me that Rick is surrounded by people but yet feels utterly alone. Although Rick may be isolated, he also reveals a softer side when llsa is introduced during the text. He reasserts his isolation and apparent self-interest when he states on various occasions “I stick my neck out for nobody”. I can’t help but feel that Rick is
In the beginning of the novel, Dr. Matthew Swain is the first character to discover the domestic violence taking place within the Cross household through one dimly lit window. Metalious uses Dr. Swain to demonstrate a mature adult with life experience who immediately wants to take care of others’ problems without knowing the entire truth. Dr. Swain’s internal obligation to help Selena is shown when he thinks to himself, “the unwritten law about a man minding his own business is a good one. But sometimes I just don’t believe it” (27). Knowing that he is educated and trustworthy, Dr. Swain offers his help to Selena, which she later seeks.
Through a dangerous circumstance, Tom Benecke risks his life trying to fill his empty pockets; however, he learns what he should have been filling his pockets with all along. Tom Benecke is a tall, lean, dark-haired man who is more concerned about success at work than the truly important things in his life such as his wife. This character was interesting to me because of the lessons he learns about life and himself throughout the story. I do not like Tom's selfishness and his obsession with work, but in the end of the story I came to admire the choices he makes to change himself. A friend of mine reminds me of Tom because she always puts other things before her family.
“Biddlebaum the silent began to talk, striving to put into words the ideas that had been accumulated by his mind during the long years of silence” (Anderson 10). Biddlebaum uses his hands a lot when he tries to communicate but nothing ever comes out which exemplifies a communication barrier. This barrier tends to keep people away causing him to be viewed as an outcast. “George Willard, he had many times wanted to ask about hands...He felt that there must be a reason for their strange activity and their inclination to keep hidden away” (Anderson 12). Often times when people feel that a person is keeping something hidden, like in Biddlebaum’s case, it is very hard for the other people to understand Biddlebaum’s
The silence of the Hasids showed just how depressed they were during this time. Another way that Potok uses a different type of silence is through a character named Levi, who is Danny’s brother. This is an interesting demonstration of silence because although Levi is mentioned multiple times, he is never spoken. In chapter 17, after Reuven talks to his father, he goes into another scene where he brings up Levi. He says “Levi Saunders was discharged for the Brooklyn Memorial hospital” (318).
In “Bartleby the Scrivener”, the narrator describes himself as a safe man who rarely loses his temper. He’s an unambitious lawyer who carries traits that are opposite of a typical lawyer. Although he prefers to keep a business relationship between himself and his employees, he finds himself going the distance to help out Bartleby. Bartleby is a copyist hired by the narrator who gives a hard time by not doing his work and eventually not doing anything at all. His mysterious tendencies somehow attract the narrator and cause his many attempts in assisting Bartleby.
I don’t care. So long as I can be alone.’” (243) John feels used by Bernard as his tool to get the girls, and he has had enough of the fingers pointed at him and words said behind his back. After all he has been through John is still unable to get away from the mindset that he has to be alone, and chooses to leave the new world in favor of a solitary lighthouse. There, like the “men” on the reservation, John whips himself daily as people watch him like some sort of spectacle. Eventually John cracks and goes insane for a moment resulting in a blackout; “He lay awake for a moment, blinking in owlish incomprehension at the light; then suddenly remembered—everything” (258).