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- # Bartleby
## Overview
"Bartleby" is a chapter within the short story collection "[The Piazza Tales](arke:01KG6YFYZ22TKC7DNP0M5XSK81)". It was extracted from the file "[the_piazza_tales.txt](arke:01KG6YDDF6PTWG4P7JTS5THSTD)" and is part of the "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)" collection. This chapter spans lines 1312 to 2170 of the source text.
## Context
This chapter is situated within Herman Melville's collection "[The Piazza Tales](arke:01KG6YFYZ22TKC7DNP0M5XSK81)", a compilation of his works. The text was originally part of "[the_piazza_tales.txt](arke:01KG6YDDF6PTWG4P7JTS5THSTD)". The chapter immediately preceding it is titled "[BARTLEBY.](arke:01KG6YGB7ZQ9TDECCV6B9DR6PT)", and the chapter following it is "[BENITO CERENO.](arke:01KG6YGB7Z3K8B6BYJGR83VQN5)".
## Contents
This chapter contains the narrative of "Bartleby," a character whose peculiar behavior and increasing refusal to perform his duties as a scrivener drive the plot. The text details the narrator's attempts to understand and manage Bartleby's passive resistance, his eventual decision to move offices to escape the situation, and Bartleby's final days and death in the Tombs. The chapter is divided into fourteen chunks, detailing the progression of Bartleby's withdrawal and the narrator's growing exasperation and pity.
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