It was fortunate for me that, owing to its peculiar cause- indigestion- the irritability and consequent nervousness of Nippers were mainly observable in the morning, while in the afternoon he was comparitively mild. So that Turkey's paroxysms only coming on about twelve o'clock, I never had to do with their eccentricities at one time. Their fits relieved each other like guards. When Nippers's was on, Turkey's was off, and vice versa.Micucci and I came up with a simple math equation today during small group discussion:
Nippers/1 = 1/ TurkeyThey are reciprocals! Anyway, I thought I'd use this blog to talk about the minor characters in this story. Nippers and Turkey are both consistently inconsistent. The narrator expects them to do be good workers for part of the day and then horrible workers for the next part of the day. Turkey is far too energetic in the afternoon. Nippers is annoyed and irritable in the morning. Ginger Nut doesn't have much description about him; he sort of just acts as the errand boy.
The narrator is cowardly, in my opinion. He never can fire anyone when he wants to. For example, on page 648, Turkey seals an important document with a ginger cake, and the narrator comes "within an ace of dismissing him then". But he ends up letting Turkey talk him out of it. Also, he can't get Bartleby to leave the office. Every time he says he is going to call the cops or physically push Bartleby out of the office, he doesn't do it. He doesn't seem to like confrontation very much because he moves his office rather than figuring out a way to make Bartleby move.
Until Next Time,
Alysse
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