Meaning (Theme)

Does the story leave you thinking anything? Feeling anything? What do you make out of it all?
Passive aggressive people are difficult to accommodate, difficult to ignore.
Passive resistance is a radical form of rebellion. 
Offices, where Americans spend the greater part of their lives, are not democracies.
Have a life outside work! Don't expect your occupation to bear the burden of your existence.
What other ideas does the story suggest to you?

The denouement of this story was a great ending tying everything together and giving some sort of explination why Bartleby's was in such way. It also made me think that it was wrong of the lawyer to give up on Bartleby, but then again this also made me think that this would never occur in society due to the fact that no owner would want to keep an employee who does no work and all he or she says is "I would prefer not to." What I make out of this is that due to the past job the Bartleby worked in I can infer that his emotions were "sucked" out of him leaving him with no cheerfulness. It made me also think that some parts of this story would be real life situations in society while others would completely not for example when the lawyer said Bartleby needed to leave and he didn't , if it were in society Bartleby would have gotten kicked out by force. Some real life situation of the story was when he was sent to jail for being a vagrant. Some ideas the story suggests is that what job you have is what defines you and how you transmit it to others, for example Bartleby came from the dead letter job and his behavior was full of negativity and non cooperation. This story also suggests that even if you have defined who you are there is always something that can change you. This occured with the lawyer and his ideas; At first he planned on using Bartleby for his on need and that was it but as time elapsed he changed and cared to know where he came from and why he would not conform to orders he would appoint to him.