Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a classical literary example of a person playing the role of a minority. ... Turkey offers to take care of Bartleby physically. ... The narrator acts like he is the only person who can deal with Bartleby's ways and keeping him around is what is best for both Bartleby and the office. ... It seems to me as though in "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville allows the narrator to think he is the one who holds all the power and his employees are the so-called minorities. ... This power might be a little less directly expressed as in the case ...

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