{"id":"01KG8AJNQFM9RJYFFH2FR2J10X","cid":"bafkreihr6nubjzcdxnusw6ljq5zofbz5ovebmp6w2kmqkmz5guwrrxw25e","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# Confrontation and initial attempts to resolve\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\nThis is a segment extracted from the short story [Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP), part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The segment, labeled \"Confrontation and initial attempts to resolve,\" spans lines 1267-1310 of the source text file, bartleby_the_scrivener.txt. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda process.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\nThis segment follows \"Bartleby's continued refusal to leave the old premises and the narrator's denial of responsibility\" ([arke:01KG8AJNQCW1RWXCBH9KETJAJ8]) and precedes \"Escalation of refusals and narrator's despair\" ([arke:01KG8AJQ3DP6Y4EA6XFRXJSYR4]). The text is part of a larger file, bartleby_the_scrivener.txt, which contains the complete short story.\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\nThe segment describes the narrator's encounter with the lawyer and the landlord, who are upset about Bartleby's continued presence in the building. The narrator is confronted and asked to remove Bartleby. The narrator then attempts to speak with Bartleby to resolve the situation. The segment ends with Bartleby's continued refusal to leave.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.340Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Confrontation and initial attempts to resolve","end_line":1310,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:37.562Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Confrontation and initial attempts to resolve","source_file":"01KG89J1CRGPEZ66W67EZPAMPE","start_line":1267,"text":"All is over with him, by this time, thought I at last, when through\r\nanother week no further intelligence reached me. But coming to my room\r\nthe day after, I found several persons waiting at my door in a high\r\nstate of nervous excitement.\r\n\r\n“That’s the man—here he comes,” cried the foremost one, whom I\r\nrecognized as the lawyer who had previously called upon me alone.\r\n\r\n“You must take him away, sir, at once,” cried a portly person among\r\nthem, advancing upon me, and whom I knew to be the landlord of\r\nNo.—Wall-street. “These gentlemen, my tenants, cannot stand it any\r\nlonger; Mr. B—” pointing to the lawyer, “has turned him out of his\r\nroom, and he now persists in haunting the building generally, sitting\r\nupon the banisters of the stairs by day, and sleeping in the entry by\r\nnight. Every body is concerned; clients are leaving the offices; some\r\nfears are entertained of a mob; something you must do, and that without\r\ndelay.”\r\n\r\nAghast at this torrent, I fell back before it, and would fain have\r\nlocked myself in my new quarters. In vain I persisted that Bartleby was\r\nnothing to me—no more than to any one else. In vain:—I was the last\r\nperson known to have any thing to do with him, and they held me to the\r\nterrible account. Fearful then of being exposed in the papers (as one\r\nperson present obscurely threatened) I considered the matter, and at\r\nlength said, that if the lawyer would give me a confidential interview\r\nwith the scrivener, in his (the lawyer’s) own room, I would that\r\nafternoon strive my best to rid them of the nuisance they complained\r\nof.\r\n\r\nGoing up stairs to my old haunt, there was Bartleby silently sitting\r\nupon the banister at the landing.\r\n\r\n“What are you doing here, Bartleby?” said I.\r\n\r\n“Sitting upon the banister,” he mildly replied.\r\n\r\nI motioned him into the lawyer’s room, who then left us.\r\n\r\n“Bartleby,” said I, “are you aware that you are the cause of great\r\ntribulation to me, by persisting in occupying the entry after being\r\ndismissed from the office?”\r\n\r\nNo answer.\r\n\r","title":"Confrontation and initial attempts to resolve"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP","peer_type":"short_story","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1CRGPEZ66W67EZPAMPE","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJNQCW1RWXCBH9KETJAJ8","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJQ3DP6Y4EA6XFRXJSYR4","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:39.247Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.620Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}