# Bartleby — Bartleby, the Scrivener character guide

> Bartleby in Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0000-bartleby-the-scrivener

## Who they are

A pale, forlorn scrivener hired by the lawyer, who gradually begins to refuse all work with the polite but firm phrase "I would prefer not to."

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