The short stories A&P and Bartleby, The Scrivener have several similarities. One of the similarities are the way certain characters act towards other. In A&P the store manager does not treat the three girls very well because they are not dressed properly for his store. He talks down to them and is not happy about there appearance at his store at all and just kicks them out. Talking down to three young girls like he did is not how a manager should act. The store manager could have used a different approach and talk to the girls that next time they came in they should dress more appropriately and let them go on with there business.
In the short story Bartleby the narrator asks him to do several different tasks that are not that hard to do but sense Bartleby refuses the narrator gets angry and frustrated with him and yells at him a few times. The narrator could have handle the situation better then what he did. The narrator then tries to just get rid of Bartleby by moving his office. This just seems childish. There must have been another way to get Bartleby to leave.
In both stories the bosses could have fixed the situation if they did not talk to the girls or employee the way they did. The bosses could learn something on how to handle confrontation. In the end something was lost. In A&P the cashier left and in Bartleby, The Scrivener, Bartleby dies. If the bosses did not act the way they did the ending could have been better. The store manager would not have lost his cashier and the narrator would not have lost his office and Bartleby would not have died.
Directions tell you that you need to come up with 3 distinct points of comparison. Then you need to offer textual proof (direct quotes and page numbers) for those points of comparison. I see only 2 points of comparison (how the bosses treat people AND what they lose as a result of that behavior). You don't offer evidence. 7/10
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