CHARACTER:

protagonist/Antagonist?- what is the Boss up against in the person of Bartleby? Does Bartleby represent a force beyond himself as an individual ? Major / Minor (who are the major players in the story ? What do we know about them ? Are they likable ? Sympathetic? Realistic ? What's the function of the story's minor characters?) Dynamic / static -who changes? who stays the same ? is the story about growth or change ? Round / flat - who is the round character? who is the flat character?

The protagonist of "Bartleby the scrivener: a story of Wall- street" was Bartleby and the antogonist was The owner of the office, plus the 3 other clerks .The Boss hates how Bartleby always says" i perfer not to ", how weird he was , and the fact that he did not talk , eat or leaave the office, he was like a robot .Bartleby reperesent a force beyond himself as an individual by refusing everything , keeping thing to himself , no one knew about him all the boss knew was that he is a good writer and is very quiet, bartleby by ignoring the Boss changed his ways.3 . The major characters were the boss and bartleby ; and the minor characters were nipper, turkey and ginger nut. I know that nipper is very weird man , he doesnt know what he wanrt in life and he is between to evil power-- Ambition and indigestion . Turkey was a short english men , during the morning he was quiet but after his lunch at 12 oclock he was very happy and energetic.he was escentric and he was not careful he made blots of ink all over the paper , he was also old. Ginger nut was the a 12 year old boy , he was teh cleaner , sweaper the son of a carman. Ginger nut had a small desk but he wouldnt really use it , he always brought little flat cakes to Nippers and Turkey . The boss owns an office in #10 wallstreet , he was an old man , he was never an ambisious lawyer . Bartleby is the one who is not likable. The functions of the minor characters suck as Nipper , Turkey and GInger nut was to make the story dynamic and also to show what the boss had to go throught everyday also to show who The boss really was , if he was selffish and indeed he was . Nipper , turkey and Giner nut , Bartleby are the characters that dont change . The character that does change is The Boss , he becomes caring, unselfish man ,he started to see life in a different way. The boss equated Bartleby with humanity , he start to think that we human are all equal and when bartleby died he felt horrible . This story is about Change , because Bartleby changed the boss into being a better person , unlike how he was at the beginning of the story . The round characters in this story are Bartleby and the boss, nipper and Turkey.

The flat characters are Ginger nut , and at times bartleby .