Vhich excerpt from the passage supports the idea that the narrator
olds a position of authority over Bartleby?
"There was no pause for digestion. He ran a day and night line,
copying by sun-light and by candle-light." (paragraph 1)
"One object I had in placing Bartleby so handy to me behind the
screen, was to avail myself of his services on such trivial occasio
(paragraph 3)
"I heard a slow scrape of his chair legs on the uncarpeted floor,
soon he appeared standing at the entrance of his hermitage."
(paragraph 11)
"But there was something about Bartleby that not only strangel
disarmed me, but in a wonderful manner touched and disconcer
me." (paragraph 18)