ator is obviously not one whose demands are often ignored. He does not quite seem to know how to react when Bartleby "prefers" not to comply with the narrator's wishes. "I staggered to my desk, and sat there in a deep study... Was there any other thing in which I could procure myself to be ignominiously repulsed by this lean, penniless wight? – my hired clerk?" (122). Another one of the narrator's qualities is being pompous. He seems to have an overblown image of himself and puts himself above others. "...but, in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat, [I] do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds. All who know me, consider me an eminently safe man" (113). We can also tell that the narrator is dominating over others by the way he speaks to them and gives them orders in a quick, no-nonsense fashion. "Bartleby! quick, I am waiting" (119). The narrator at times also seems confused. His own employee is defying, and in a way, testing him. Yet, he does nothing about the situ
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