"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville is a very interesting story. It is in fact an allegory I believe. It is a great example of the debate between Neoclassicism and Romanticism. It is also a satire on the office world.
Bartleby, the title character, is a Romantic living in a Neoclassic world that being the office. What more the epitome of boredom and order than that of a scrivener: having to copy the same documents over and over again following with checking them to see if all are exactly the same! The closest thing Bartleby has to a "friend" is his boss. The boss hires Bartleby without question and quickly grows to like him. However, soon Bartleby "prefers not to" do his work and becomes totally unreasonable. The boss is patient, and goes with this for a while, yet soon things start to get out of hand. He isn't even allowed into his own offices every morning! There comes a point in which the boss is about to strike Bartleby with all his anger, but he catches......
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