Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: I would prefer not to

The strange behaviour of the main character 'Bartleby' in this short story can be described as 'perfectly harmless passivity': 'I would prefer not to.'The reason for this behaviour lays in the fact that Bartleby was suddenly removed out of the 'Dead Letter' office in Washington after a reorganization.'Dead letters! does that not sound like dead men? ... Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring ... a banknote ... he whom it would relieve nor eats nor hungers anymore ... on errands of life, these letters speed to death.'Bartleby had hope. He had a job, albeit a rather 'catastrophic' one. But, he himself became the victim of a catastrophe: he lost his job, his hope. He became a stoic.Bartleby is the personification of humanity's lost hopes: 'Ah , Bartleby! Ah, humanity!'This is a profoundly modern and magisterial tale.