This character is compared to "Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage." This character uses an old bandanna handkerchief as a savings bank and under his desk he stores a newspaper containing a morsel of cheese. He seems to subsist entirely on the snacks provided him by a youthful coworker. The narrator says "Ah humanity!" shortly after the death of this man, whom he speculates derived existential angst from his previous job in a dead letter office. This colleague of Nippers and Turkey constantly tells people, including his employer, that he would "prefer not to" do tasks. For 10 points, name this title character,
This character is compared to "Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage." This character uses an old bandanna handkerchief as a savings bank and under his desk he stores a newspaper containing a morsel of cheese. He seems to subsist entirely on the snacks provided him by a youthful coworker. The narrator says "Ah humanity!" shortly after the death of this man, whom he speculates derived existential angst from his previous job in a dead letter office. This colleague of Nippers and Turkey constantly tells people, including his employer, that he would "prefer not to" do tasks. For 10 points, name this title character, a "scrivener" in a Herman Melville story.
This character is compared to "Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage.
Bartleby