"Bartleby" and "The Metropolis and Mental Life"

Simmel's "metropolitan persons" are very much like Bartleby. As far as the "blase outlook" goes, according to Simmel is "an indifference toward the distinctions between things...the meaning and the value of the distinctions between things, and therewith of the thngs themselves, are experienced as meaningless." Bartleby seems to have this attitude in the sense that he is soley focused on his work, making money, and does not bother with any other events going on in the office; nor does he seem to care bout having a relationship with his boss or any of his coworkers. All Bartleby sees in the world and surroundings, is an an environment where work is done to make money, and the only purpose of living is to accomplish work to make money. He does not see the people he encounters as individuals, but merely as part of the same system he is, and they are all just doing their job along with him.