Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"Bartleby" by Herman Melville

"I'd prefer not to."

Guess what? I'd prefer not to write this blog. I bet that joke comes up a lot today. Probably because Bartleby is the most annoying character ever. If he were a real person, we would have problems. I'm sure Melville was trying to say something deep about society, Wall Street, or something really deep. However, I was too annoyed with Bartleby to notice. In fact, I was annoyed with all of the characters. They were extremely ridiculous, and I was completely frustrated with them the entire time. If I were the narrator, I would fire them all, start fresh, and hope to find some normal employees.

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