Irony
: The Boss doesn't recognize that his own passiveness is as persistent and frustrating as Bartleby's. Or that his gentle, self-interested interest in Bartleby is leading to no good.
Can you think of other ironies?
The one irony that comes to mind is the boss's profession. The boss works in a field related to Wall Street. And as we all know, Wall Street is a work place that is based on rules, regulations, serious business, and if anything, it deals with the defending of ownership. So the boss is a man who owns and runs his own office. He hires his employees, he makes final decisions, he gives orders and tells others what to do and when to do it. But yet, when it comes to Bartleby, he never has anything to say to him. Yes, he is appalled by the response Bartleby constantly gives him but at the same time he accepts his response. He allows Bartleby to say no to his requests, to move in to his office and live there, to do absolutely no work at all, to stay after he is asked to leave. It comes to the point where the boss does not want to be rude to Bartleby so he packs up his own office and moves to another location. I mean to be a man who works in a strict type of work field, and to allow yourself to be moved out of your work place by a man that barely says anything, seems a little ironic to me.
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