What Is The Thesis Of Bartleby The Scrivener

Todd F. Davis wrote a critical essay about Herman Melville’s story, “Bartleby, The Scrivener.” Davis critical essay is called, “The Narrator’s Dilemma In “Bartleby The Scrivener”: The Excellently Illustrated Re-statement of a Problem.” His thesis is, “Therefore, if we contend we know anything of Bartleby, it is only what the narrator knows of Bartleby, and if we are to have any insight into the narrator, it must be through the examination of his own words (184). Davis critical essay focuses on the relationship between Bartleby and the narrator through the narrator perspective.
One claim Davis makes is that we would know so much more about Bartleby if he would say more or do more (186). Because Bartleby does not do or say much we do not know