"The Birthmark" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Compare and Contrast

"The Birthmark" is about a husband and wife. The wife is pretty much perfect but she has this birthmark on her cheek that her husband hates. He is so disgusted by it  and his wife only wants to please him so she asks him to get rid of it for her. The potion he gives her gets rid of the birthmark but it ends up killing her. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is about a man who starts working as scrivener but only does what he wants. Anytime he is asked to do something he doesn't want to he simlpy says, "I would prefer not to." Eventually, he decides he doesn't want to work. The boss tries to be nice and lets him get away with it but eventually he asks him to leave. When he doesn't the narrator/boss moves his office and Bartleby gets sent to like a jail thing. The narrator tries to save Bartleby but he ends up dying. The characters in both stories are believeable and the plots are plausible.In both stories the characters had motivation. In "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Nippers had indigestion and stuff in the morning so he was cranky and later in the afternoon he was well behaved. Turkey behaved in the morning and in the afternoon after dinner he was crabby. In "The Birthmark" the husband hated his wife's birthmark that's why he wanted to get rid of it. They had reasons for doing what they did.In "Bartelby, the Scrivener" Bartleby was a foil for the narrator/boss. He shows a side of the boss we might not have seen. He showed us the caring side of the boss. I think the wife in "The Birthmark" is a foil for the husband. She shows us how uncaring the husband was.I think what we learn from these stories that people don't take enough time to really care about those around us.In "Bartleby, the Scrivener" the narrator/boss feels sympathy towards Bartleby. But the boss wasn't empathatic towards him. Bartleby needed somebody to try to understand him.The boss was just trying to make himself feel good about doing a good deed. He never really went out of his way to understand Bartleby and really take care of him. Bartleby's actions were a cry for help. In "The Birthmark" the husband didn't really care for his wife. He didn't look past her imperfection to see her real beauty. The husband is almost like the boss from "Bartleby,the Scrivener." He acts like he's doing his wife a big favor by getting rid of her birthmark. He would have done a better thing if he would have cared about his wife for who she was and accepting her flaws.People feel good when they believe they did a good deed. They just got to figure out if what they are doing is more beneficial for them or the person they are "helping."