Paradox
: Bartleby is stubborn, self-absorbed, rebellious, and insubordinate, yet many readers, and even the narrator, the Boss himself, have a deep sympathy for him. Why?
Others?
They have deep sympathy for him because they feel bad for him knowing his past. They know where he worked before he worked in the dead letters office. They feel bad that he had to live through that and see all those letters not being mailed. Love letters, packages, gifts, everything like that that was meant to be sent, never did. It’s like lost mail and never got to anyone. So they put themselves in Bartlebys position and feel his pain and sympathy for him. They felt his pain of seeing "dead" letters and always being surrounded by things that have a dead end. So we as readers believe that he is that way because of that job.
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