The effects of Bartleby on the Narrator

The narrator puts up with a lot of unnecessary Bartleby, even though he is not very beneficial to him. He sees a lot of himself in Bartleby, which in a way gives him so much slack to pity him. It seems that he finds Bartleby mysterious and suspenseful, in a way; he never knows what he will say or do, as though he can never catch on to him. It's something about Bartleby that rocks our narrator's guilt. Though not to normally pity like so, he can't seem to let go of his pity for Bartleby. The guilt of letting Bartleby go to the deep dark streets would be too much for him to handle. His guilt would wallow in his stomach until death. So he keeps Bartleby around anyway.