according to the dictates of the time of day. I consider it was comical, because, how could he ask his employees for advise when he knows they act according to the time of the day? The characterization of Bartleby and the narrator were strong, because the image of Bartleby is the symbol of the story and the narrator is moved by Bartleby's actions in a way. Besides Bartleby and the narrator, the rest of the characters are in a way open ended because we can't really picture
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