I have seen blogs that say this is a story about Bartleby’s resistance. That, I believe, is partially true, but somewhat dismissive. I think this short story is more about the narrator and their relationship with, and in, organizational culture, conflict, guilt and trauma. They both—Bartleby and the Narrator—arguably, preferred not throughout this story. However, the narrator’s preference—or lack thereof—was veiled under the guise of pity and absolved them of the responsibility of seeing themself as Bartleby. Ah Humanity.