The last lines of Bartleby state that he is staring at a wall in prison after being sent there because he is a nuisance and invades the property of the Wall Street law firm run by the protagonist. Along with his strange death by starvation, implied by the author throughout the story, we see Bartleby behaving rather strangely and somewhat comically due to his refusal to do any work asked of him. Because of Bartleby's strange behavior, we have to wonder why he behaves that way because it is clearly not the normal way that all the other characters in the story behave or any way a person of the present age would even behave. Leaving this story like this by playing on the reader's curiosity is a great example of how to write a story without