Bartelby

I'm new to this so I don't really know the process. But we were asked if Bartelby were in today's society how would he be. I don't think he would make it because they put up with a lot back then. If he was right here in Detroit he would not be able to come to work drunk and only being productive half of the day. The way the economy is now compared to back then it might of been a little easier but everyone is struggling and would not pay someone for work they have not completed they would be replaced in a heart beat. Bartelby has let the office become his life so much so that he looks like a fixture or part of the building. The office seems grungy and gloomy just as Bartelby appears to be. I don't think Bartelby knows what his next move will be he is content in his office in which seems to be his home as well. In the reading he ends up getting fired finally and ends up dying. He had no purpose so he thought without this office it was like he couldn't survive.