Explain do you think the narrator’s encounter with Bartleby changes him in some profound way(s)? If so, how? If not, why not?

The unnamed narrator of “Bartleby the Scrivener” describes himself as “a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best” (1). He further states that he is “unambitious,” working in the “cool tranquility of a snug retreat,” known by everyone who knows him as “an eminently safe man” (1). Do you think this is an accurate portrait of the narrator both before and after his encounter with Bartleby? Explain do you think the narrator’s encounter with Bartleby changes him in some profound way(s)? If so, how? If not, why not?