Great Works of Literature II

Throughout the Scrivener, every time the narrator asks Bartleby something, he says he “prefers not” rather than “will not to”. I think that he’s speaking more emotionally than logically. I realized that at the end he dies, and I think you can presume his death by looking at what he’s detaching himself from. Especially at the end, when to eat is the last thing that is asked of him to do, he “prefers not to” and ideologically this could mean that by emotionally denying food is detaching yourself from life itself.