A review on the narrative of Bartleby. To what extent might the narrator of “Bartleby” be using the character Bartleby as an evasion, a way of not looking squarely at the emptiness of the narrator’s own life? 2) Who do you (the reader) sympathize with more? Bartleby or the Narrator in the story. Why? Where in specific does the narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener believe that Bartleby worked before he came into the narrator’s employ?