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Herman Melville, Bartleby (1853), pp. 7-29

As you read the rest of Bartleby for Thursday, notice and mark as many interactions between Bartleby and the narrator as you can. For this post, choose two interactions, however mundane or dramatic (but note they should be from today's reading), and explain what strategy (whether reasoning, rage, questioning, or some other practice) the narrator appears to be trying out in each one. Then, try to answer a larger set of related questions: is it accurate to call Bartleby's behavior a form of protest or resistance? Why or why not? And, if so, what or whom is he protesting and / or resisting?