1) The story begins with the narrator stating, “the easiest way of life is best,” and ends with narrator saying, “Ah, Bartelby! Ah Humanity!” Using these lines as your guide and both the primary source, Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, and the secondary source, The Transcendentalist by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to support your answer, explain whether or not the narrator in Bartleby the Scrivener has achieved, fails to achieve, or is on the road to achieving transcendence by the end of the novella.
2) How can we relate The Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s short story, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, to William Blake’s poem The Tyger?