Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"Bumblebee the Scrivener"

"'Stationary you shall be then,' I cried, now losing all patience, and for the first time in all my exasperating connection with him fairly flying into a passion," (210).

I would prefer not to ever think about this story again in my life, let alone write a blog on it, but if you would prefer that I do, then I will prefer to write about question number nine... just a preference.

Okay, so I will try to recall the beginning of this story (Oh! The joys of a three hour long "short" story!).  The narrator, who I will call Bob for sake of sanity, pitied Bartleby *chills* from the start when he described him as "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, and incurably forlorn."  Last time I checked, these were not the qualifications of anyone that I would want working for me, but Bob had already fallen to the charm of the Bumblebee.

I have the hiccups.

Finally!  It actually looked like Bob was going to fire the fool, but no, he found too much guilt in the idea of firing such a lost person.  At this point, I could not decide who I hated more, Sir Scaredy or Mr. Wishy-Washy, but none-the-less, I trekked on in hopes for something better, but still they remained... to my dismay.

All of these observations are from the indirect characterization.

NO!!!!!!  How could you let the guy live in your workplace?  Not only does this show how much of a push over you are, but it also made me almost feel sorry for Bart Bumblebee for a moment's time.  It passed.  Apparently his ideas passed too because he left the guy!  *Muahaha*

Seriously though, I would really prefer to not ever see this story again.

Now that Bumblebee is in jail (insane asylum would have been more appropriate), Bob retracted his previous attempts to leave him behind by visiting him in jail.  Then Bumblebee dies.  Great ending in my mind... but I suppose I should go more unbiased really quick.

Okay, so Bumblebee is really just a scared person because of his past.  Fair excuse, suppose I (what was up with the way it kept being "said I" instead of "I said").  I must also say that Bob is not really a push over, per se, but really just a caring person who wants to help out a man who is lost in where to go.  These two compliment each other in a blend of awkwardness that I suppose I would have preferred not to have ever learned about.

By the way, Bumblebee and Bob are foil characters, but I never actually said that before now.

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