The narrator
An elderly, prudent Wall-Street lawyer
Wall-Street law office150 mentions
Also called: The lawyer, Master in Chancery, I
The narrator is an unambitious, methodical lawyer who runs a small conveyancing practice on Wall Street and employs Bartleby along with two other copyists and an office boy. He tries repeatedly to understand and accommodate Bartleby's strange refusals, feeling a mixture of irritation, pity, and fraternal melancholy toward him.
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“I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.”