# Bartleby — Short Fiction character guide

> Bartleby in Short Fiction by Herman Melville.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** poor Bartleby, the wasted Bartleby

**First appearance:** 0000-bartleby

## Who they are

A strange, passive scrivener who repeatedly says 'I would prefer not to.'

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