Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" the narrator of the story is the main character. While the entire story describes the mysterious and peculiar Bartleby, the main theme of the story is about the narrator. It is about the transformation has a human the narrator under goes. The narrator morphs from a man leading a non-confrontational life, to one who displays his anger to finally a man who cares deeply about what happens to his former scrivener.
             At the beginning of the story, the narrator is having a good life for the most part. He tells the audience that he is of the belief that the easiest way in life is the best. The narrator dislikes trouble in his life. Despite being a lawyer, he chooses not to work inside a courtroom, instead preferring to be a law-copyist. The audience also learns that he is an un-ambitious man. Being a go-getter would require a good deal of effort and many confrontations, which the narrator admits he dislikes and avoids. The narrator offers further insight into his self, "All who know me, consider me an eminently safe man."(pp. 233-234) The man leads a tranquil life doing, in what he describes, a "snug" business. Even the very nature of his profession is very non-confrontational; all he and his clerks do is copy legal documents. The mans worst problem is with Turkey and Nippers who have some odd quirks about them. There is nothing beyond this that the narrator has ever had to deal w!
             ith, think about or concern himself with. That is until he hires Bartleby.
             After the first few days of working with Bartleby progress the narrator soon discovers the peculiarities of his new clerk. This shocks and later angers the narrator as this man is the biggest problem he as ever had to deal with. On the third day of Bartleby's employment, the narrator first discovers the reality of his new clerk. The narrator was dumbfounded at this obstacle in his i...