Bartleby the Scrivener

The changing attitude of the lawyer toward Bartleby is one of aggravation. He is mad at Bartleby becuase customers find it odd that Bartleby lives there. When it starts to scare the tenants away he thinks more about his livelihood then the well being of Bartleby. He tried to work with him and make him offers about other living arrangements but those would still not appease him. The changing attitude seemed to shift the story from the Lawyer trying to help Bartleby to seeing him as a burden. This burden kept being shoved onto other people. The people who had to deal with Bartleby dehumanized him in away when passing him onto other people like a problem. But in the end when he died their "problem" was solved and the meaning of his madness was explained and he found out about what drove him to lunacy.