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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”

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Is That a Wrong Interpretation of Bartleby?

Bartleby can be seen as kind of like this som he can seem to have an almost ristocratic datachment, a ciceronian senseof work being beneath him. We don't sort of see bartleby's own perspective, or his own thought process, as the why is he refusing? Why does he prefer not to do what the lawyer boss expects of him? Right? And that's what makes this, i think, what has made it such a rich text for critical readings, because there is no final answer. We have to interpret on our own terms, ind terms of life.

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