A short time before the central story begins, the narrator had been appointed Master in Chancery, a position that has since been eliminated. He takes no risks: ""All who know me, consider me an eminently safe man" (4). Though a lawyer, he never goes before juries or judges: he runs a business dealing with rich men's bonds, mortgages, and title deeds. Of himself, he says that he is a man always convinced that the easiest path is best. Before he gets into Bartleby's story, he introduces himself and the other employees of his office. The elderly narrator promises to relate what he knows about a peculiar man, one Bartleby, a scrivener (copying clerk) who worked for him some time ago.
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