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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”

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Bbunchehand Reading Is Just a Tale of Exhaustion, That's What It Is

The narrator is never named, but we know things about him. Whereas bartleby is named, he asn non noog about hem. I did so removed from bartleby's own thought processes, we have to be a little bit sceptical when we see him project so much onto this character. A lot of the characters remind me of what likte takeville said about the democratic spirit in america at the time. It's not really interested in probing into the individuality or particularity of people. And that struck me as this narrator tuitas kind of exemplar of this democratic ethos. But i never got the sense he really cared about understanding bartlebi's person.

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