Neal Chapman
blog post 3
In Bartleby, the scrivener, Bartleby is a scrivener, or better known as a scribe, who is working for a unnamed lawyer who acts as the narrator for the story. He starts out being good at his job, but when asked to review his work her just says "I would prefer not to." After this, Bartleby wont do anymore work, all her reply's with is just, "I would prefer not to." This drives the narrator crazy, making him go as far as to move his entire office, with out telling bartleby.

Something is wrong with Bartleby in a mental sort of way. The way he suddenly refuses to do any work and just repeats the same phrase over and over again leads me to believe he is autistic. Autistic people a lot of the time will focus on one thing and not be able to get it our of their heads. After he tells the lawyer he wont work at all, he still lives in the office. His inability to leave a place where he once called home is again a big sign that he is slightly autistic. i am not saying that he has an inability to work in the normal workforce, I am saying that he has a case of slight autism. there are more signs of him being autistic, such as, the fact that he wont go to the lawyers house, his inability to communicate with the police.

When the narrator sees Bartleby living in the office even though he refuses to do any work, he feels bad for him at first. but, when he starts to lose business because people are disturbed to see a man living in a law office. The narrator went as far as to invite Bartleby to live in his own house. Bartleby gets kicked out of the office but then continues to live in his office building. people have warned the narrator that they will call the police to get bartleby to leave. Bartlebys not wanting to leave indicates an inability to change, and people with autism also have a hard time making changes. They get comfortable in a situation and cant handle changing that, Bartleby also can't leave the office because he has made it his home. the biggest problem people with autism have is trying to communicate with other people. Bartleby can't tell the narrator why he can't work, he just repeats the same phrase over and over again whenever he does not want to do the work. As I have worked with special needs kids, i am comfortable in making my assumption that Bartleby is autistic and just needed someone who understood his condition to help him and to save his life.