Bartleby the Scrivener

This is a story that has been debated over by many well educated scholars and the theme is still uncertain. In my attempt to analyse this story I found that the lawyer, the narrator of the story, was using his workers. He starts out tell of his workers and the ones that work well at different times in the day. These workers do not have real names, for example, turkey. He treats his workers as less then men. They are described by how they work almost like animals on a farm. Then the Lawyer hires a new employee, Bartleby, who works well all through out the day. Bartleby is the only one with a realistic name. He is the lawyers most prize possesion because he did everything with out being asked. When the layer did ask him to do something he would respond, "I'd prefer not to" and he would refuse to do the work. So much so that in the end all he would do was sit by the window and they had to move the office. Bartleby is eventually taken to jail where he dies. I think this shows how workers lose their enthusiasm and their personalities die. They become more of a nusance and they are imprisioned by their work.