CEC Bartleby the Scrivener Part Three

CEC Bartleby the Scrivener Part Three

http://www.bartleby.com/129/

Note: In this case, an incubus (end of paragraph 169) is a source of difficulty or anxiety.

1. What is the narrator’s solution in paragraphs 172-173?

2. What is Bartleby doing at the narrator’s former office? (189)

3. What is funny about the exchange in paragraphs 191-212?

5. Contrast Bartleby’s answer to the narrator’s offer in paragraph 213 and the narrator’s reaction to Bartleby’s immobility.

Note: The Tombs is a prison in what is now Chinatown, in Manhattan.

6. How does the narrator perceive Bartleby’s new landlord’s actions in 214?

7. What do we learn about mid-19th c. prison life from the conversation between the narrator and Mr. Cutlets (note the name) in paragraphs 223-239?

Note: Monroe Edwards (1808-1847), was a slave smuggler and forger who was the subject of a famous trial in 1842, He died of tuberculosis in Sing Sing Prison. (NYC)

8. Explain the Egyptian reference in 244.

Note: Dead letters are letters which cannot be delivered to the addressee nor returned to the sender, because both have moved, addresses were wrong or on or both have died during the delivery process. They are the only letters the post office can legally open (in an attempt to find addressee or sender).

9. How do The Tombs live up to their name at the end?

CEC Bartleby the Scrivener Part Three

http://www.bartleby.com/129/

Note: In this case, an incubus (end of paragraph 169) is a source of difficulty or anxiety.

1. What is the narrator’s solution in paragraphs 172-173?

2. What is Bartleby doing at the narrator’s former office? (189)

3. What is funny about the exchange in paragraphs 191-212?

5. Contrast Bartleby’s answer to the narrator’s offer in paragraph 213 and the narrator’s reaction to Bartleby’s immobility.

Note: The Tombs is a prison in what is now Chinatown, in Manhattan.

6. How does the narrator perceive Bartleby’s new landlord’s actions in 214?

7. What do we learn about mid-19th c. prison life from the conversation between the narrator and Mr. Cutlets (note the name) in paragraphs 223-239?

Note: Monroe Edwards (1808-1847), was a slave smuggler and forger who was the subject of a famous trial in 1842, He died of tuberculosis in Sing Sing Prison. (NYC)

8. Explain the Egyptian reference in 244.

Note: Dead letters are letters which cannot be delivered to the addressee nor returned to the sender, because both have moved, addresses were wrong or on or both have

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