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- # Bartleby's removal to the Tombs and the narrator's visit
## Overview
This segment, titled "Bartleby's removal to the Tombs and the narrator's visit," is a portion of the short story "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG6YFY3GPNBP5AAFESQKDTDR)". It spans lines 1387 to 1505 of the original text and was extracted from the file "[bartleby_the_scrivener.txt](arke:01KG6YDD8YHX9PCQE3NTAG8XF1)". This segment is part of the larger "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)" collection.
## Context
This segment follows the events described in "[Bartleby's removal to the Tombs and death](arke:01KG6YGC7TQ8F6H1ASFC30XW0J)" and precedes "[Bartleby's death and the narrator's final reflections](arke:01KG6YGC7TCY7S8J2047AGY6XX)". It details the narrator's visit to Bartleby after his removal to the Tombs, a city jail.
## Contents
The segment describes the narrator's efforts to understand Bartleby's situation after his arrest for vagrancy. It includes the narrator's visit to the Tombs, where he finds Bartleby in the prison yard. The narrator attempts to communicate with Bartleby, offering him food through a "grub-man," but Bartleby remains withdrawn and unresponsive. The segment also touches upon the narrator's growing concern and pity for Bartleby's increasingly isolated and peculiar state. This segment contains two chunks: "[Chunk 1](arke:01KG6YGMAEVHZ7FZT68JCKWT5S)" and "[Chunk 2](arke:01KG6YGMAHFT414AX3NT4V6CS5)".
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