Characters Protagonist / Antagonist

what is the Boss up against in the person of Bartleby? Does Bartleby represent a force beyond himself as an individual?
Major / Minor (Who are the major players in the story? What do we know about them? Are they likable? Sympathetic? Realistic? What's the function of the story's minor characters?)
Dynamic / Static-Who changes? Who stays the same? Is the story about growth or change? 
Round / Flat-Who is the round character? Who are the flat characters?

In this amusing short story we can clearly see that the boss is not up against a "normal" individual that conforms to rules at work. The boss ecounters a person with a monotone personality due to the job he was enrolled in before arriving to the bosses job. In my opinion Bartleby does represent more than himself because it appears that he has incorporated all the mail that was not recieved, thus all the negativity has affected him to have less feelings and use a line that attracts and irritates some readers, he prefers not to. A major character of this short story was the narrator, the boss, because we are spectators of this story through his eyes. The boss in contrasts to Bartleby demonstrates many emotions such as comprehension, acceptance, pity and anger. The narrator is a lawyer that is about sixty years old with an excellent mind for doing business. I believe this character is likeable because this chracter seems relaistic and resembles a normal person in society as shown where he hires Bartleby for his interests and has patience for him, however as we then see his shift in emotions demonstrating he represents society. Surely he is a dynamic and round character that demonstrates his change. His compassion towards his employees in particular Bartleby changes from using Bartleby as a utility to developing to a caring person attempting to learn what makes Bartleby act in such manner. The other major character in this story was Bartleby. This person was the character whom the author decided to write about stating how tough of a character he is to describe. "Bartleby was one of those beings whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and in his case those are very small." What we discover about him is that he used to work where all the mail that was not recieved landed. With this we can infer that this is where he learned to be how he is now after observing so much pain and abandonment causing Bartleby's emotions to be sucked out of him. To some people this character is annoying but in my opinion this character was very entertaining to understand. I believe this because of the choice of words he chosses to reply with such as "I prefer not to" these lines stun the readers because they are not expected line keeping the reader attracted to keep on reading. Although an excellent copywriter I find him very entertaining because he does not comply with the "laws" of society at work which are usually, obey what the boss orders you to do. This character seems sympathetic because in society this paitience and understanding would not happen. Bartleby would have been kicked out of the office regardless his great ability of work because he did not comply. Bartleby is also a static and flat character that does not change since the moment he steps foot into the office. His monotonic actions terminated when he died in prison. The minor/ major characters are Nippers and Turkery because they have some opinions but are not very active in this story. We know that Turkey is about the same age as his boss and Nippers is young; what makes them such an effective team is that Turkey works at his best during the morning and after lunch he begins to fall while Nippers works at his best in the afternoon. These characters seem likeable because their combination of work balances each other out. However in my opinion, examining them I don't see them as likeable characters because they resemble "ordinary" workers that follow the rules and never argue against them like Bartleby.