Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

I found Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" a strange story. I think in the end it becomes ambiguous whether Bartleby was a ghost or not. He worked for Dead Letter Office, and he kind of just ambled around the office without a care. Also the narrator, who is Bartleby's boss, refers to Bartleby in a mystical way a few times throughout the story. It is interesting how the narrator gives into Bartleby's wishes. Even when he wants to get mad and kick him out of the office because he isn't working for some reason the way Bartleby carries himself and stays silent makes the narrator unable to do so. To the point that the narrator leaves the building because Bartleby will not leave. Even when the new tenants move in Bartleby doesn't leave he just does what he wants. Is there something supernatural affecting the narrator? Or is the sad, pathetic, lonely man that the narrator has built up as Bartleby's story in his mind makes him unable to harm this helpless creature. It was not my favorite story. I found it extremely long, drawn out, and not very entertaining or interesting.