confining himself behind the screen
             wall. 3. Bartleby's confinement behind the screen every day, and stay in the
             office every night restricted him from taking part in certain actions that
             people could normally do in their homes during the day or at night. 2. The
             repeated phrase, "I would prefer not to" that Bartleby says throughout the story
             shows the confinement of his thoughts being kept in his head. 3. Bartleby
             refused to engage in conversation with other people in the story, and when other
             people would try to engage in conversation with him he simply said that he would
             prefer not to answer their questions, or do what they ask him to do, and that
             was as far as conversation with Bartleby had gotten. 3. One possibility is that
             he restricted himself from letting his thoughts go free, or beyond the
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