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The story "Bartleby" was written in a calm language, and moderately humorous. Despite that, Miffl used this language carefully, in a terrible subject, which also shows some features that hint at Kafka. The story "Bartleby" belongs to a collection titled "The Stories of the Balcony," and John Freeman mentioned that these stories were not fully understood until Joseph Conrad published some similar short stories, after about half a century had passed. I would also like to point out that Kafka's works cast a faint, strange light on "Bartleby" intentionally, as Miffl employs a literary genre that Franz Kafka later rediscovered. He used it around 1919, which involves whims related to behavior and feelings, or as it is now wrongly called "psychological stories." Miffl's greatness is undeniable, but his fame is somewhat recent. A large number of the population, big cities, false and noisy media promotion—all these factors conspired to make great obscure people part of American heritage. Edgar Allan Poe was one of these, as was Miffl.