Because Bartleby had already influenced the way he speaks, the lawyer is afraid that he might influence him further.īartleby had already affected the lawyer in a mental way because the lawyer had picked up Bartleby’s usage of the word “prefer”, but the lawyer is also afraid of “further and deeper aberrations” that his contact with Bartleby can produce within him.
The lawyer then came to the conclusion that Bartleby had affected him and his other scriveners in a mental way because Bartleby had already “in some degree turned the tongues…of myself and clerks” (para. He was surprised when he sees that his other scriveners have also began using the word prefer when Turkey asked if Bartleby would “prefer to take a quart of good ale” and when Nippers asked the lawyer if he “would prefer to have a certain paper copied on blue paper or white” (para. After dismissing Nippers using the word prefer, the lawyer says “somehow as of late, I had got into the way of involuntarily using this word ‘prefer’ upon all sorts of not exactly suitable occasions” (para.
The lawyer says, “I trembled to think that my contact with the scrivener had already affected me in a mental way” because he and his other scriveners, Turkey and Nippers, had started using the word “prefer”. The lawyer is afraid that he, himself, might become more like Bartleby. And what further and deeper aberration might it not yet produce?”.
After realizing that Bartleby was affecting him, the lawyer says, “I trembled to think that my contact with the scrivener had already and seriously affected me in a mental way. The scrivener, Bartleby, is strange because of his refusal to do anything with the calm reply, “I would prefer not to”. In Herman Melville’s story story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, a lawyer tells the story of a strange scrivener that had once worked for him.
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