ppearance of Bartleby, tenanting my law chambers of a Sunday morning..." (14). The description of Bartleby "tenanting" the narrator's law chambers implies that Bartleby makes his home there as if he belongs there.
             Even the narrator realizes Bartleby's unusual lifestyle, "I remember that he never spoke but to answer; that though at intervals he had considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him reading – no, not even a newspaper; that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall" (13). In fact, Bartleby seems bounded by dead things including the "dead brick wall" and his "dead-wall reveries" (16).
             Furthermore, throughout the story there is no representation of love, or any trace of women at all. This fact implies not only that Bartleby's life is devoid of love, but also that the narrator's life is devoid of female contact. Similarly, Bartleby shows neither melancholy nor joy throughout the story. Even after the narrator explodes in fury at him by saying, "What! suppose your eyes should get entirely well - better than ev
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