In the working community there is no time to do anything that isn’t work related. There is nothing more required from you other than to be obedient to your boss and to work efficiently so the company can do well. According to one of Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtues of industry, he said that one should: “Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut of all unnecessary actions.” Hard work and dedication …showed first 75 words of 738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 738 total…lying next to a wall with his head leaning against the stones. The fictional character Bartleby represents the working class in the industrial society. It is an exaggeration of what happens to someone if they don’t employ themselves in something useful, like Ben Franklin did. Bartleby followed Ben Franklin’s virtues in the beginning and impressed his boss but the environment of the Dead Letter Office came back to haunt him in the workplace.