In the narrative Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Mellville, Bartleby seems to be an oddball type of character. He is a man of little words and emotion. He is portrayed as a lonely man. The idea of death is present around him in many cases. He is described as “writing silently and palely” which is a description often associated with death (301). As noted by the narrator, “Bartleby did nothing but stand at his window in his dead-wall revery” (311). Upon beginning his work in the office, he often times stared out the window at a dead wall. The wall is described to be dormant and still mimicking a dead person. Bartleby has the characteristics of a dead man when looking at that wall. He is motionless and pale for hours on end as he stares out the window at a blank, bare, and still wall. When the narrator moves offices, Bartleby stays in the same spot in the old office. Like a dead person who is unable to move, Bartleby refuses to leave, “he refuses to do anything” (317). When Bartleby died in the prison yard, His motionless pale body laying on the ground mimics that of his body when he was alive and staring out the window. After his death, it is revealed to the narrator that Bartleby used to work at the dead letter office, an office sorting mail which was not delivered to deceased people. This is yet another image of death that is associated with Bartleby. Little is known of his actual life, but from what is known, he was a depressed, lifeless, and strange person. The idea of death while he is alive seemed to foreshadow his actual death in the end. He had given up on everything including himself.