"I would prefer not to." - Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" Herman Melville is considered to be among the best of American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for his short stories and stirring novellas. Two of these are the most renowned of his shorter works, Bartleby: The Scrivener, and Benito Cereno. They first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories, The Piazza Tales. In Bartleby, also known as Bartleby and the Scrivener, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clere, Bartleby, to copy legal documents by hand. At first Bartleby proves to be a very productive worker but one day when asked to proofread a document he replies "I would prefer not to", an answer he begins repeating perpetually in regards to all the tasks asked of him. What follows for Bartleby is a tragic decline...
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