Satire is a literary technique for criticizing people's foolishness or vices through humor, to inspire improvement. Find an example of satire in the story and
explain its impact on the reader.

"Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.”

This is using humor to express how it upset the main character when Bartleby said he would prefer not to [be reasonable]. Its impact on the reader is that it leads them to view Bartleby as sort of foolish by mocking something he said, making it seem outlandish and unreasonable.

Explanation:

This is my best guess - I did a lot of looking through websites online and I cannot read the entire short story tonight because it is 30 pages. I got this quote from a website, shown in the attached image, and did my best to answer all parts of the question.

I really hope this helps and that this answer is correct. Best of luck to you

i think its a bad thing why? one word flood

i think it is who. im not sure to be honest