Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville, is short story about a peculiar man who works for a lawyer as a copyist. This man, named Bartleby, joined a diligent work environment where two others were already employed. These two workers were Turkey and Nippy. These two characters worked together smoothly and their personalities almost relieved the other making it a perfect balance. When Bartleby was hired, he worked great, even providing hard felt work, but soon he become passive aggressive with his unwillingness to follow simply orders, signified by a phrase “I prefer not to.” The short story follows the Judge in his decision making on rather to relieve Bartleby of his duties or let him continue because of the pity he felt for him.

I personally do not understand why Bartleby having worked for the dead letters office, has to do with his death in the court yard at the end of the short story. I don’t really understand the significance of the story in general. Some critics call him the Gandhi of an economics ridden society, green with greed. While others say he is just a collection of characters that the judge purposely collects like some type of hobby. The judge even states in the beginning of the short story:

But I waive the biographies of all other scriveners for a few passages in the life of Bartleby, who was a scrivener of the strangest I ever saw or heard of. While of other law-copyists I might write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done.

The judge regards as just a story, one complicated to take note of.

In the video above the digital user achieves summarizing an otherwise complicated story into a video of a little over 1 minute. I found it interesting that they were able to do this and I liked the pictures that were illustrated. I think the digital user found Bartleby’s forlorningness the most appealing of the story. I know I did.