He is a "rather elderly man" of about sixty years. The Boss is obviously the boss at the law firm. The major players of the story are the Boss and Bartleby.
He also keeps to himself and refuses to reveal his life story to the Boss. Bartleby does represent a force beyond himself as an individual because of his stubborn and resistant ways of responding to people. This is what makes Bartleby the antagonist of the story. In the Boss' eyes, Bartleby is against him and everyone else. The reader also sees Bartleby through the narrator's eyes. The Boss is the protagonist of the story because the reader gets to see more of his emotions and attitude towards the situations and characters of the story.
It comes to the point where Bartleby even refuses to fulfill basic biological needs such as finding a home or feeding himself. The Boss is up against Bartleby's resistance and refusal to do anything and his decline to everything by saying "I prefer not to".
The story about growth or change? Round / Flat-Who is the round character? Who are the flat characters? Sympathetic? Realistic? What's the function of the story's minor characters?) Dynamic / Static-Who changes? Who stays the same? Is Himself as an individual? Major / Minor (Who are the major players in the story? What do we know about them? Are they likable? C haracters Protagonist / Antagonist ? - what is the Boss up against in the person of Bartleby? Does Bartleby represent a force beyond
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