Emily Grierson and Bartleby are individuals that aren’t living their life independently like any other people. Both Emily and Bartleby are rebels of society in unique ways; both of them have this empty feeling inside and society has affected them emotionally. Furthermore, Emily wanted to leave her parents household because her father controls every aspect of her life. She wants to live a normal healthy life and find marriage, family, happiness; and a home of her own. Emily had need of a relationship and began dating Homer Baron. After she poisoned him so that he could not abandon her, she kept his body in the bedroom located in the attic.

Similarly, Bartleby worked day and night on writing. He felt isolated in the lawyer's office and started doing less work by constantly staring at the wall. The lawyer started to reason with him, but Bartleby answered the same way. He found out that Bartleby started living in the office. The lawyer gave up on him and moved out.

There are several reasons why Emily and Bartleby don't receive much freedom. They never had control and want to make their choices. Emily's father denies her the freedom to start a relationship with men. She feels that she can never fall in love and people begin to feel sympathic to her. Since her dad drove men away; when he died she had told people that he wasn't gone and held on to his body. Emily became sick in the house filled of shadows and dust.

Bartleby, on the other hand, was a copyist who did an extraordinary amount of writing and did not take breaks to eat. He ran day and night line copying silently and summarizing four long documents quadrupling a week’s worth testimony for the lawyer. The lawyer said, "The copies, the copies"; "we're going to examine them there." (Ln 30).

There is a point in time where two people can no longer handle the way their life is being affected negatively which caused (tense shift) them both to rebel since they couldn’t handle it anymore and wants (agr) to feel away from all of it. Emily wanted some poison from the druggist. She goes (tense shift) out with Barron Homer and poisoned (tense shift) him she doesn’t want to be rejected. The house was filled with smelly dust and the man was rotting beneath on the bed. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long stand of iron gray hair” (Ln 475). She became a psychotic lover who preserves her love and this proves that she doesn’t want to change.

Bartleby started working for the lawyer until he was asked to join the group to review his work. He quickly said “I would prefer not to” (Ln 31) and doesn’t obey the lawyer’s request to review his copy. Turkey, Nippers think he’s crazy and the lawyer decided (tense shift) that he will kick him out of the office. The lawyer said “I owe you twelve dollars on account here are thirty two the odd twenty are yours will you take it?” (Ln 143) (run-on sentence) and he has (tense shift) to leave the office in six days from this hour. The next day the door was locked and his plan worked like a charm he’s finally gone. As soon as he was opening the door bartleby told him “not yet I’m occupied” (Ln 152). (run-on sentence) The lawyer couldn’t stand his attitude anymore argued with him and left him alone.

The major turning point is that both individuals reached isolation and as a result, destroyed their life (agr) in the process. Emily got arsenic poisoning. After killing Homer, someone people haven't seen around in six months; (dangling modifier) Judge Stevens sends four men to sneak on Emily's place at night to sprinkle lime around the area. The druggist had said, "The law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for." (Ln 39). Her face was grey, head lifted on a yellow pillow, decayed with age and lacking sunlight. Her hair was on the corpse, she'd lain with him and became a necrophiliac. (Ln 30). You need to show how these quotes support your assertion.

Bartleby stopped working and was sent to prison for staying in the office for far too long. The lawyer made sure that they fed him. "I prefer not to dine today." said Bartleby calmly. At the base of his cell wall, lying on his side, Bartleby looked wasted away; his dim eyes open. "Lives without dining." (Ln247) and the lawyer closed his eyes.



Conclusion?

You need to establish parallels between the stories more closely by using transitions and topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph and by contructing a conclusion that ties the analyses of the two works together and returns to the thesis of the paper. Correct all the errors. Contents=B- Organization=B- mechanics= C+

79=B-/c+