# Bartleby, the Scrivener — Character guide

> Key figures in Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville.

- [The Lawyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/11231/characters/the_lawyer.md): He runs a snug, unambitious practice among rich men's bonds and mortgages, employing copyists in a chambers whose windows look onto a blank wall. Profoundly convinced that the easiest way of life is best, he is a man of 
- [Bartleby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/11231/characters/bartleby.md): Hired into a Wall Street law office, he works with quiet, almost ghostly diligence before gradually refusing each task assigned to him, first small ones, then all. His passive, unshakable refusals baffle his employer, wh
- [Turkey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/11231/characters/turkey.md): An elderly, efficient scrivener in the lawyer's employ who becomes irritable and error-prone in the afternoons.
- [Nippers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/11231/characters/nipples.md): A young, ambitious scrivener who suffers from indigestion and irritability in the mornings, but is calm and useful in the afternoons.
- [Ginger Nut](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/11231/characters/ginger_nut.md): A twelve-year-old office boy who runs errands for the scriveners and is named for the cakes he often fetches.

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