The story of "Bartleby the Scrivener" is very pessimistic. There seems to be much more to Bartleby than the loser image he exudes. Bartleby seems to be living in his own world, which makes him dead to the real world that surrounds him. It is hard to figure out what caused him to end up this way, but the "dead letters" job he had is definitely one of the events that led him to end up "preferring not to".
The definition of "loser" is "one who is incompetent or unable to succeed: something doomed to fail or disappoint" (Merriam Webster). This describes Bartleby very well, almost too well. He…
