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Bartleby ("Bartleby") Timeline and Summary

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Bartleby ("Bartleby") Timeline and Summary

  • Bartleby shows up at the narrator's law offices, offering to be a copyist.
  • Bartleby works diligently…but when asked to check a copied page, he says "I prefer not to."
  • He starts at some point living in the office.
  • He does less and less, and eventually stops even copying. When his boss the lawyer fires him, he refuses to leave.
  • The lawyer eventually abandons his offices. Barlteby stays behind.
  • The new owner of the offices kicks him out; he stays on the landing.
  • He's taken off to jail, finally. He refuses to eat.
  • The lawyer visits him in jail and finds him dead.