"Eh!-He's asleep, ain't he?" "With kings and counselors," mumured I.
This is the fate of Bartleby in "Bartleby the Scrivener." I am answering question number three on the worksheet. I think that the physical description of Bartleby hints at this fate throughout the stoy. Bartleby is described as ghostlike, pale, passive, and poor. This description along with Bartleby's constant presence in the office gives me the impression that Bartleby is like a ghost. He is living in the background of the workers' lives. This implies his fate because the physical description also resembles a corpse. The corpselike description hints that he will die and be just as pale, cold, and poor. I think that the author hints at Bartleby's fate because he wants the readers to know what is coming to an extent and let them draw their own conclusions about how, when, where, and why.
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