Soon into Bartleby’s employment, however, the narrator asks him to help verify a copy of a document. He works through all parts of the day, even writing by candlelight at night. Because of Bartleby’s promising nature, the narrator places him in his personal office, giving Bartleby privacy behind a folding screen.īartleby is an excellent worker at first, producing more copies, or “folios,” than the other scriveners.
Where Nippers is irritable in the morning, Turkey struggles with his work in the afternoon, meaning a scrivener is always performing subpar work in the office. The narrator hires Bartleby because a recent increase in the lawyer’s importance means he needs additional help. Of the four named characters, only Bartleby is called by his actual name the other three have nicknames. Ginger Nut is an errand boy who spends most of his time fetching apples and ginger nut cakes for the scriveners.
Nippers, Turkey, and Bartleby are scriveners, people who copy documents by hand, often for legal proceedings. The lawyer employs four people: Nippers, Turkey, Ginger Nut, and Bartleby. “Bartleby” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed senior lawyer on Wall Street in New York City.
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