Lawyer=Dynamic

  The lawyer is not a static character because as the story goes on, he becomes more and more attached to Bartley, who had previously judged his employees’ every action. In the beginning of the story for example he describes Turkey as “an Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty. In the morning one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue,...” (Melville 160). This type of surface level analyzation was how the lawyer did things considering his perfect lifestyle consists of living as easily as possible. As the story goes on, the lawyer is presented with Bartleby’s weird behaviors of simply “not preferring” to do work (Melville).  The lawyer becomes infatuated with Bartleby and his reasons for not wanting to do the job he’s assigned. At the end of the story, the Lawyer learns of a rumor that Bartleby has died and is devasted. He exclaims “Ah Bartelby! Ah humanity!” (Melville 187). This is a stark difference between his careless outlook on life at the beginning of the story as he makes a terrible realization about the world and how it impacted somebody he cared about.